A few days ago, Apple Computer announced quarterly earnings of 68 cents a share, far exceeding the predictions of Wall Street analysts. This was the fourth consecutive profitable quarter for the company that even diehard loyalists like me had just about given up on. I hate to jinx the company's future fortunes, but I think the time may have come to celebrate Apple's phoenix-like rise from the ashes.
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Has Apple Recovered?
By Ed Yourdon
Posted October 20, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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