Triumph of the Nerds [three of three] 2/6

If this movie proves nothing else, it proves how stupid managers are. You know it's true, too, cause you work with (for?) them everyday. Can I get a Amen?

amen!

Hallelujah! *plays organ*

LISA was 10k $ because it had 1 MB of RAM. Remember that 1 MB got affordable in '86(when the Amiga came along).

Trust researchers more than business men. Researchers don't do it for the money and they are not reasonable about what is impossible. Almost every single great company has a good research team as their backbone

err...real life Steve Jobs isn't as hot as Noah Wyle LOL

XErox invented the GUI and mouse paradigm. They were just morons not to be able to market it.
Thaat's what happens when a company has a bad management team! MORONS!

actually, it was SRI in the 1960s who developed the On-Line System (NLS), which incorporated a mouse-driven cursor and multiple windows used to work on hypertext.

Xerox did goof in hindsight, but if you were primarily a paper copier company, would you sell a product that eliminated 90% of your business?

Only Apple could have pulled it off, they had the vision, the distribution channel and the engineering resources to make it all happen.

i agree but they lacked the vision for the potential that technology offered. It would have killed their core business but created a whole new world for them. Always embrace change never oppose it!

sure it's easy to say, but Xerox was an old line photographic paper company founded in 1906, while Apple was a fresh thinking computer firm founded in 1976. The inertia of Xerox simply didn't allow for such a radical shift in strategy, while Apple was nimble enough, creative enough to make the huge leap with the LISA, then ring out the costs of building a GUI based machine with the Mac.