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The story that really needs to be told...

posted 13 years ago by Pseudoephedrine
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Is Apple post Jobs. Right after Jobs got fired and how Apple was at the forefront
of the desktop revolution...while Jobs sequestered himself and started "NeXT"

The timeframe from 1985 to 1998 could make for a multi-episode miniseries.

It was during this time that some of the more colourful/crazy characters came
to Apple and started Apple on it's strange/slow decline.

"Project Aquarius" alone would merit a whole episode on just who profoundly
screwed up Apple became. Strangely enough: Apple is wanting now to bring it back!!!

http://www.itproportal.com/2011/01/19/apple-spend-39-billion-reviving-project-aquarius/

Jean-Louise Gassee, Michael Spindler, and the crazy negotiations bringing
Jobs back to Apple.

Also, for all that's holy...time needs to be spent on the decline of other computer
companies in the 1980's, and yes: I am talking about how IBM lost out to Microsoft.

Same for Commodore Computer, there's tons of stories there as well.

[–] tankgarbonzo 13 years ago

Cloud computing is the new thing. Who makes the most powerful hardware needed to drive this? IBM.

IBM will be fine.

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[–] nights_dream_paradox 13 years ago

There is a documentary about Commodore, The Deathbed Vigil - one of the chief engineers taped the last days of work there as the company crumbled to bankruptcy.

Also, there's upcoming Viva Amiga.

[–] banzaibill 13 years ago

I'd love to see a similar movie about the gaming console industry, particularly the rise of Nintendo and the subsequent rivalry between them and SEGA.

[–] raf-33 11 years ago

Atari had to die for either Nintendo or Sega to exist, Atari once ruled the console world alone until the great crash of '83. It was a dark time for children, almost 1 in 5 would go insane without a sequel to Pacman and there was nowhere to put them, so they were sedated and then bulldozed into the sea.

Opinions are just onions with pi in them.

[–] ianberg 10 years ago

A movie about the mobile phone war of 2007-14 could be made (rise of ios, android; failure of windows phone to make a dent; collapse of Nokia, Palm, Blackberry). Former Microsoft executive and Nokia CEO Steven Elop could be the central character.