Among the lapidary sentences that Steve Jobs has left for posterity, one of them is especially remembered as part of his skill as a negotiator. It was the first half of the 1980s, and he approached the then president of Pepsi with a view to joining Apple, a company on the rise in both sales and popularity.
The offer has passed to posterity: "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or do you prefer to change the world?". It was 1983 when the bidder decided to accept to change the world. Although before, he decided to make a stopover by changing the leadership of the Californian company, something that happened to give the bidder a ticket. It was the year 1985 and Steve Jobs was leaving the company he built by the back door.
The other half of this epic anecdote is John Sculley, who as of today is developing his memoirs. Due to this, some details of his participation in Apple during the time that he remained as a leader of the company have been known. He has also spoken about the current panorama of the firm, and this is where part of the interest that today is news resides. In this sense, Sculley has pointed out that, within the horizon of competition that Apple faces in its field, only Samsung would be a threat to the aspirations of those from Cupertino.
Specifically, the former CEO of the apple firm has made a statement to The Economics Times of India in which he refers to the Samsung Galaxy Tab line, which would be "the only serious threat in the field of tablets with the one facing the Apple iPad ”. In any case, and undoubtedly knowing the spirit that is spent in Cupertino with the criticism, Sculley added that "it predicts many good years ahead" for the Californian company.
He is not the first ex-Apple to make public boasts that they do not necessarily fall behind the company in which he participated years ago. A few months ago, it was Steve Wozniak himself "" known affectionately as Woz , and co-founder of the company along with Steve Jobs "" who surprised locals and strangers at the gates of Googleplex, Google's headquarters in Mountain View, at the He waits for a Samsung Galaxy Nexus to be given to him. However, far from being the image of dissent, the popular engineer did not miss his traditional participation in the commercial premiere of the iPad last March, Being seen, as usual, at the head of the line waiting to get hold of the latest version of the tablet from Apple.
Currently, the Korean Samsung faces an immediate future in the field of tablets, which involves filling the market with an important range of options that oscillate between terminals of various formats "" between seven and 10.1 inches, in a deck of four sizes "" made up of two families of devices: on the one hand, the Samsung Galaxy Tab, and on the other, the Samsung Galaxy Note.
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