[gururafiki]

1986
January: Apple settles law suit against Jobs out of court. Jobs agrees not to hire any Apple employees for 6 months, and to always make computers that are more powerful than anything Apple has to offer...yes, you read right.

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I don't understand why any company would sign a deal like this. WTF was Apple management thinking at the time??

[Ω]

I am quite sure that was not part of the agreement.

Jobs, in RDF angry mode, tells Apple he will crush them with NeXt by producing better computers.

QED.

[Big Mac]

A provision like that was indeed included in the settlement. Apple intended to preclude NeXT from their market - the personal computer space. They got him to promise that he would not enter the regular consumer market, and NeXT never did.

[Ω]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

A provision like that was indeed included in the settlement. Apple intended to preclude NeXT from their market - the personal computer space. They got him to promise that he would not enter the regular consumer market, and NeXT never did.

Wearwe winterwesting.

[Zimphire]

He had to price them above consumer level.

[dlefebvre]

But who won in the end?

[:XI:]

Originally Posted by dlefebvre

But who won in the end?

Microsoft.

*rimshot*

[Big Mac]

Both sides eventually won. SJ won, of course - he engineered the reverse takeover of Apple. It's quite possible that we would not have Apple today if he had not come back.

[gururafiki]

Originally Posted by Zimphire

He had to price them above consumer level.

So at the time Apple only made consumer level products?

[turtle777]

^^^ Joke of the year.

Maybe this meant that Jobs had to make post-pro-machines.

-t