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Don't Get No Respect (4/19/98)
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Ex-cast member Gil Amelio continues to get press about his recent tell-all memoir, On the Firing Line, My 500 Days at Apple. Although a Nando.net article reveals an Amelio that outwardly claims to be "ecstatic" about Apple's recent financial improvements, we sense an undercurrent of jealousy and injustice, and a man who honestly thinks he laid the groundwork for Apple's turnaround but isn't getting any credit.
To be fair, yes, it certainly sounds like Amelio did a lot of work during his year and a half that led to many of Apple's current strategies. After all, he did buy NeXT, which provides the central technology for Rhapsody and even future incarnations of the Mac OS. He also got us all used to the idea of cutting popular and cool but unprofitable projects (though we're told that exactly which projects got cut were determined by Steve Jobs, in the post-NeXT-buyout era). But we find it a little odd (and, quite frankly, a tad pathetic) that he's claiming credit for the changes that took place after he left; many of them may have been his ideas, but it was Steve Jobs who was crazy enough to pull them off. The simple fact is that most of the changes that have turned Apple around occurred because Amelio was ousted, not in spite of that fact.
In addition, there's the obligatory comments about how Steve Jobs is an "erratic egomaniac seeking revenge." It's good to see that some things never change.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/19/98 episode: April 19, 1998: An embittered Gil Amelio recounts his days on the cast, and wishes he'd get some credit for the recent turnaround. Meanwhile, Intuit gives its official reasoning for why it's ceasing Mac Quicken development, and Apple continues to ignore the potential advertising gold mine known as the "Year 2000 Problem..."
Other scenes from that episode: 642: Quickly Intuitive (4/19/98) We feel slightly less upset about Intuit's recent decision to cease development for Quicken for Macintosh. It sounds as if they will reconsider their strategy when (if?) Apple starts targeting the consumer market again, but until then, it doesn't make financial sense for Intuit to release a new version of Mac Quicken every year... 643: Not Quitting Our Day Jobs (4/19/98) Being primarily Mac users, we at AtAT don't spend a whole lot of time worrying about what's going to happen in the year 2000; after all, the Mac's designers were perfectly aware that computers would still be around in the 21st century...
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