From: glen mccready To: 0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 19:33:13 -0500


Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
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>From The Red Herring magazine, February 1996, page 115

The Herring:
	Is this a hits business, then?

Jobs:	Oh, absolutely. But I will put forth my theory to you, because,
	of course, I get asked this question a lot.  My response is very
	simple -- I can only look back at my own history. The Apple 2 was
	a hit. The Apple 3 was a miss. Lisa was a miss. The Macintosh was
	a hit. Silicon Valley is a hits business. It's no less of a hits
	business than I see in the film business. At least Pixar's second
	film doesn't have to be backwards compatible with its first. So
	that's my answer. Life is a hits business as best as I can tell.