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 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.