John Sculley, the former CEO of Apple Computer from 1983 to 1993, may have gotten the boot from Steve Jobs, but hey, no hard feelings. Mr. Sculley had nothing but praise for the company and his former colleague.
Speaking at a CES breakfast meeting today, Mr. Sculley said the success of the iPod was a great model as to how new technologies, such as home automation, can succeed. The iPod owns the MP3 player business, he said, because it was marketed as high fashion, not technology.
The same thing is true of Apple’s retail stores, which Mr. Sculley described as “the finest retail experience I’ve ever seen,” with the kind of service only experienced in places like Nordstrom’s.
On the eve of the Macworld show, don’t bother asking him what the Next Big Thing will be. “People can figure out what will happen; we’re not very good at figuring out when things will happen.”
No comments:
Post a Comment