Quote by Walter Isaacson Download Open image ““The year before, 279,000 Apple IIs were sold, compared to 240,000 IBM PCs and its clones.”” — Walter Isaacson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977. — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
People knew about IBM before they knew about Apple. Sometimes it takes a little longer for better to win. — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
In the 2010 holiday quarter, Apple reported $26.7 billion in revenue, up 70 percent from a year before. That means it's nearly as big… — Daniel Lyons Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market -… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
“So we said, "OK, we'll do Apple Computer." In those days there was no money yet in this microcomputer business, and big experienced companies… — Jessica Livingston Copy Share Image
“Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. " If anybody was ever wondering… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
We sold more iPads in the last quarter alone than any PC manufacturer sold in their entire line. — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
“If you went back to the year 2000 and you looked at Apple, most people knew one thing about Apple products: They didn’t want… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and… — Walt Mossberg Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image