{"id":2257,"date":"2010-01-12T12:25:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2010-01-12T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T16:25:49","slug":"heres-to-the-crazy-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/heres-to-the-crazy-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s to the crazy ones…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ars Technica’s John Siracusa is having flashbacks… \u00c2\u00a0He is reviewing and commenting on his 10 years of Apple Mac OS X reviews…<\/p>\n

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The latter half of the 1990s was a dark time for the company\u00c2\u00a0then<\/a> known as Apple Computer, Inc. Windows 95 had dashed any remaining hopes of mass-market desktop dominance for Apple. The big profits of the earlier part of the decade had given way to some\u00c2\u00a0 huge annual losses<\/a>. The future of the entire company was in doubt.<\/p>\n
Like injured animals, corporations are adept at hiding the true magnitude of their injuries. As grim as things appeared from the outside, few Apple enthusiasts knew at the time just how close the company came to fiscal ruin. But the software picture was always crystal-clear\u00e2\u20ac\u201dclear, and terrifying.<\/p>\n
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I highly recommend taking a look<\/a>, and seeing where he has gone wrong, and hit it on the nail…<\/p>\n
John is a fountain of useful information on the Mac OS X internals, and he’s got some great ideas…<\/p>\n
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