Some notes on the Markoff profile of Jobs in the NY Times.
- Apple now has 78 retail stores (and one in Ginza, Tokyo that pissed me off yesterday)
- Jobs did not back Newton nor General Magic
- Jobs cancelled all consulting contracts at Apple in ’97 (yes!)
- “The success of the iPod doesn’t seem to have significantly changed Apple’s market share,”
- only top execs at Apple are allowed to speak with the media
- Apple claims 70% market share for legal music downloads
- Apple claims 45% of MP3 market
- only 4% of the personal computer market
- 1Q04; 807,000 iPods sold; 750,000 Macs sold
- non-Mac revenue at 39%; total revenue $1.91B
- Tony Fadell ex-Real gathered 35 people to build the first iPod
- original iPod used licensed software from Pixo (former Apple engineer)
Oh, Yeah, He Also Sells Computers [nytimes.com]
NY Times Apple Highlights
Gen Kanai has condensed the recent iPod-centric NY Times rub-and-blub piece about Apple into easily digestible chunks:- Apple now has 78 retail stores (and one in Ginza, Tokyo that pissed me off yesterday) – Jobs did not back Newton nor General Magic -…
NY Times Apple Highlights
Gen Kanai has condensed the recent iPod-centric NY Times rub-and-blub piece about Apple into easily digestible chunks:- Apple now has 78 retail stores (and one in Ginza, Tokyo that pissed me off yesterday) – Jobs did not back Newton nor General Magic -…
“only top execs at Apple are allowed to speak with the media”
That’s not very interesting. That’s true at virtually every public company, due to liability and other fairly significant issues. I assume that it is an attempt by the “Times” to portray the company as secretive or some such nonsense.
cdg