A bunch of you have written in asking why we haven't addressed ex-Apple CEO John Sculley's latest comments about Apple's missed opportunities. Well, mostly it's because if you ask us, the man's been getting entirely too much press lately for playing Shoulda-Coulda. Barely a week ago, Nostalgia Boy was flapping his gums to CNET about how the Newton should have been "one of Apple's most profitable investments ever" and how Apple should have invented the World Wide Web with HyperCard. And yeah, we ran with it, mostly because it was a really slow news day and it gave us a chance to flog the new goodies in the AtAT Store. But it made us feel cheap and dirty, and we don't think we'll be doing that again.

What's that? Nothing really happened today, either?

And we've still got a ton of shirts to sell?

Huh.

Gee, check it out, everybody! Faithful viewer David Poves informed us that John "Shoulda Stuck To Sugared Water" Sculley is still recounting his Apple-flavored missteps to anyone with a pen and/or a dictaphone; this time it's InfoWorld who quotes Sculley as saying that "one of the biggest mistakes [he'd] ever made" was "not going to the Intel platform" when Intel's Andy Grove made the suggestion.

Of course, as The Register so rightly points out, what John-Boy may be conveniently forgetting is that back when he had to make that decision, Intel's bestest was a 386 or something, which made Motorola's then-current 680x0 offerings look downright attractive by comparison. And based on the best technical evaluations of the time, there was every indication that the PowerPC architecture had serious legs, whereas x86 was already looking pretty tired. Furthermore, it doesn't matter that you're wearing roller skates if there's a rocket tied to your butt, and who could possibly have foreseen that Intel could extend x86 a decade past its rightful life expectancy by virtue of strapping its would-be corpse to bigger and bigger rocket engines? Seriously, x86 is the Weekend At Bernie's of chip architectures, and there's no way that Sculley or anyone else at Apple could really be expected to have predicted that.

Next week: Sculley confesses to WIRED that, in hindsight, it may have been a mistake to mention to Bill Gates that "if anybody copies the Mac interface and slaps it onto cheap IBM clone hardware, I'd probably be dumb enough to let them get away with it via a legal loophole, and then, hoo, boy would we be in trouble."