As work on the 99/4 and 1978 started, Texas Instruments recorded $2.5b in annual revenue, and the minnow Apple jumped to $7m.
When TI cancelled the 99/4 in 1983, it had nearly doubled earnings to $4.5b while Apple vaulted to $1b in annual revenue, a 13,750% rise.
In 1989 NYT journalist John Markoff quoted analyst Charles Wolf on Apple's future - "Moses went to the mountain for the Ten Commandments, Steve Jobs went to the mountain and came back with the Macintosh. But can John Sculley go to the mountain and come back with something unique?"
Did Tim Cook come back with Neo?
I still don't understand why the stock markets are so bullish on Anthropic (or any AI product) when a request to check the facts on a story that I know, got me the storyline of a made up person. When confronted, Claude and all bots use the phrase 'hallucinate'.
How would that excuse go at your work review? with your boss?
At what point do we trust LLMs with medical decisions, health records, legal decisions, self-driving, high-school papers?
No two Apple job interviews were the same.
Adobe debuted ATM. John Warnock told the press:
“This should give all PostScript applications a much better WYSIWYG effect. Type is the blood that circulates in the computer system. We want one kind of blood in computers.”
Robert X. Cringely recalled Adobe's stance:
"Adobe's underlying hope was that quick market acceptance of ATM would dissuade Apple from even setting out on its separate course."
It was too late. Apple had secretly built its own font system, Bass.
