Last week I wrote about three companies that had either followed an Apple-like strategy (Gateway), utilized ex-Apple employees (OQO), or executed on a founding Apple principle (AMD/Microsoft). This week we’ll examine three more companies that owe a lot of what they are to Apple, as part of my not-so-subtle look at what might have been had Apple been able to keep these ideas, concepts and people inside the company. I’ve often thought of this as the Xerox curse.
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Baby Apples II: The Curse of Xerox
Posted by: Rob Enderle November 8, 2004 05:00 AMLast week I wrote about three companies that had either followed an Apple-like strategy (Gateway), utilized ex-Apple employees (OQO), or executed on a founding Apple principle (AMD/Microsoft). This week we’ll examine three more companies that owe a lot of what they are to Apple, as part of my not-so-subtle look at what might have been had Apple been able to keep these ideas, concepts and people inside the company. I’ve often thought of this as the Xerox curse.