…if John Sculley is much more perceptive than all those computer veterans that never understood what open systems would do to their proprietary business until it was too late, he may fear that, five years out, the Macintosh may well look a lot less of an asset than it does today, we wrote back in January as we played Devil’s Advocate on why Apple Computer Inc might want to get into bed with IBM Corp (CI No 1,592): take a bow, Mr Sculley – last week he told the Wall Street Journal that while the depth of Apple’s technology made it an attractive partner to IBM, Apple faced a dim business future on its own – seems there should be more pop salesmen running computer firms.
