Re:Steve Jobs Explains NeXT's Strategy (1991) [vid]
by jwilliams on Monday October 20, 2008 @05:38AM
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> Just goes to show that you can be smart and know exactly how to achieve a goal, but luck and timing are just as important.
Yeah, it's fascinating to watch this and think that as this video was being made, the Internet (well, WWW) was just about to change everything (directly or indirectly anyway).
Re:Steve Jobs Explains NeXT's Strategy (1991) [vid]
by netcan on Monday October 20, 2008 @10:12PM
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I think that his strategy was sound at the time. The market he was talking about did grow. But he missed a critical point.
He was thinking of it as a split in the workstation marketplace. Sun had a 50% market share. He thought he could beat Sun. In effect, this marketplace became dominated by PC players & PC users (EG Mac Pro). A subset of the PC market really. Publishers, animators, designers, architects etc.
He did pick them up in the end with Apple.
This is vid 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dmcRbuTMY and this is vid 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn3Ex-5dPAo&feature=relat...
What is interesting is that even though his approach in these videos is correct, Jobs would have lost if Apple didn't have the large pool of cash to do something with Next's technology when Jobs came back to Apple.
Just goes to show that you can be smart and know exactly how to achieve a goal, but luck and timing are just as important.