There are no top guys, alright? In the Apple II team, there are no top guys. You will not blow me off right now, Steve! The tops guys are. I started with the Apple II team because we don't, you know, make that anymore. Joel, could you come off stage? We're gonna go backstage for a moment. I had three different accountants try to explain it to me. You were less than 90 days from being insolvent. Listen, okay? Last year Apple lost one billion dollars. The top guys, the ones who are getting laid off. There are people 'round here, man, including a member of the press. I'd at least consider the possibility that it's because you've never had any for me. I don't think there's a man who's done more to advance the democratization that comes with personal computing than I have, but you've never had any respect for me. These people live or die by your praise, so here's your chance: acknowledge that something good happened that you weren't in the room for! If it weren't for me, you'd be the easiest 'A' at Homestead High School. You made a beautiful board, which by the way you were willing to give out for free, so don't tell me how you built Apple. He was John 'cause he wrote 'Ticket to Ride', and I wrote the Apple II. You think John became John by winning a raffle, Woz? You think he tricked somebody or hit George Harrison over the head? He was John because he was John. I don't like talking like this, but I am tired of being Ringo when I know I was John.Īnd I am tired of being patronized by you! The Lisa was a failure, the Macintosh was a failure. I'm sorry to be blunt, but that happens to be the truth. to the only successful product that this company has ever made. This is a product launch not a luncheon, and the last thing I want to do is connect the iMac to the. You guys came up with the Newton, it's like you want people to know that. you were built by the Apple II!Īs a matter of fact I was destroyed by the Apple II and its open systems so that hackers and hobbyists could build ham radios or something! And then it nearly destroyed Apple when you spent all your money on it and developed a grand total of no new products. This whole place was built by the Apple II. Fix it now or you can contact me at my new job working anywhere I want. that's what's supposed to be the best part of you, and it's caused me two decades of agony. But what you make isn't supposed to be the best part of you. I love that you don't care how much money a person makes you care what they make. I have been a witness, and I tell you I've been complicit. What's been wrong with me for nineteen years. Tell me what's wrong with you this morning. She's turned on me.įix it or I quit, how 'bout that? I quit and you never see me again, how 'bout that? I don't care if she put a pipe bomb in the water heater! You're going to fix it now! She gave Chrisann her blessing to sell the house and she did it to spite me! She's supposed to stop her mother - that particular mother - from living. You don't think you're having a bizarre overreaction to a nineteen-year-old girl allowing her mother to list her own house?
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