{"id":3760,"date":"2011-09-14T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2011-09-14T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T19:51:27","slug":"john-sculley-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/john-sculley-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sculley Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/it-jobs.fins.com\/Articles\/SBB0001424053111903285704576560420813121788\/John-Sculley-on-Apple-s-Jobs-and-the-Experience-of-a-Lifetime\">John Sculley<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2995935\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/it-jobs.fins.com\/Articles\/SBB0001424053111903285704576560420813121788\/John-Sculley-on-Apple-s-Jobs-and-the-Experience-of-a-Lifetime\">\n<p>What they needed was someone who could keep the Apple II computer, which was a cash machine, commercially alive for three more years because Steve Jobs was still a year away from introducing the Macintosh. In 1983, Apple was outsold by each Atari and Commodore by 2-to-1. The IBM PC had been introduced a year-and-a-half earlier and was gaining momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping the Apple II alive didn't require someone to know much about computer technology, it required someone who knew something about how to market and sell a near end-of-life product.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sculley (via Hacker News): What they needed was someone who could keep the Apple II computer, which was a cash machine, commercially alive for three more years because Steve Jobs was still a year away from introducing the Macintosh. In 1983, Apple was outsold by each Atari and Commodore by 2-to-1. The IBM PC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3761,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}