Apple vs Microsoft | Seeds of Discontent | 3

Business Wars

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History, David Brown, Business, Management

4.6 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Turmoil at Apple rots the company from the inside out, just as Microsoft’s Windows operating system starts ruling the computer world. Microsoft and Apple’s relationship reaches a breaking point when Microsoft allegedly steals company secrets, and the student… becomes the master.

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0:15.0	Early February 1985, Apple HQ in Cupertino, California.
0:23.0	29-year-old Steve Jobs is sitting in his office, flicking through the latest issue of Playboy,
0:29.2	reading it for the interviews, of course.
0:32.2	They have a story about him, and if there's a centerfold in this piece, it's the Macintosh.
0:39.6	Steve Wozniak pops his head in the door.
0:42.0	Steve, can we talk?
0:44.8	Woz, as everyone calls him, is shorter than Jobs with a round face and a wide grin.
0:51.6	But today his customary smile has vanished.
0:55.2	But Jobs barely glances up from his magazine.
1:00.2	Woz stands in front of Jobs, ringing his hands.
1:03.2	Woz is the co-founder of Apple, and he's really the maker behind its computing greatness.
1:09.2	He hates confrontation.
1:11.2	So this is going to be tough.
1:13.2	He takes a deep breath.
1:16.2	Steve, I've made a decision.
1:19.2	Is it about the Apple too?
1:21.2	If so, can it wait till tomorrow? I've got a lot going on.
1:25.2	The Apple too is a top-selling Apple model, headed up by Woz.
1:29.2	But Jobs doesn't have time for anything but his pet project, the Macintosh.
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