About Jobs and Gates
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Hello, My name is Jason S, I would like to say that I really do admire you and your work, and if you wouldn’t mine, I would like to ask you a few quesitons about Jobs and Gates:
First, how did you feel at the 1997 MacWorld Expo when Jobs announced a semi-merger with Microsoft? Next, What do you think of the Anti-trust case against Microsoft? Do you think its a monopoly or just an extremenly competitive company? Also, what do you think of Jobs being appointed interim CEO of Apple? Do you tink that the new iMac is the answer to the companies decline?
Woz
The1997 MacWorld Expo: In the sense which it is intended it’s good. I’m non-confrontational for sure. But it was portrayed as Bill Gates cheering for Apple and that wasn’t true
Regarding Microsoft: It’s a monopoly. Microsoft has used it’s monopoly powers in very bad ways. What if all the gas stations were owned by one company and they announced that they were modifying the nozzles to only fit their own brand of car? We’d have no choice and all the car companies would be out of business. If you’re rich and don’t like somebody who has a shoe store, you don’t have the right to open a big shoe store across the street and price the shoes at half price just to put him out of business (and then be left with the rewards of a ‘monopoly’)
Jobs as CEO: At first I didn’t like the fact that he would revive his own Next stuff within Apple, because some good Apple stuff would be shelved. But the products are great and leading the world to the future…Woz