I was able to find this article instantly using Google by typing "Stewart Alsop Paul Davoust NeXT"
Paul is a friend since my Borland stint and was my business partner for years. At the time I was a NeXT machine owner, developer, and advocate. He always disagreed with my enthusiasm and told me about the bet you two had. He turned out to be right. _In the short term_ of your time-boxed bet.
Now, the world is dominated by NeXT software and hardware. I am as shocked and pleased as anyone at what happened 3 years after your mea culpa article.
I forgot that I wrote about that bet! I guess I'll write about anything... I certainly remember the bet! Indeed, I have made the argument more recently that my bet was totally correct, just expressed the wrong way. Either you can say that the value Apple placed on NeXt is now worth well more than $1B of its revenue or that the underlying value of the IP Apple bought is now worth at least $1T of its market cap. But the truth is that the real underlying value of Apple's $2T market value really came from the lessons Steve learned from both his first Apple experience combined with his NeXt experience. Did you read Steve Levy's article about Apple's silicon strategy: It's worth it and relevant to his thread: https://link.wired.com/view/5bea0acb24c17c6adf15bc0ff4xbt.qc6/0dcfe2a1
Thanks to Google Books and the Internet Archive, your InfoWorld writings are findable., Stewart, albeit maybe with a few more clicks than usual. Fortune, I’m not sure abut.
I've got that Getting Old problem, which ironically I share with my father, who passed in 1974! All of my writings were published Before The Web. I wrote my Fortune column from 1997-2003, while the Internet itself was fulminating, but Time Inc. was thoroughly confused and didn't know what to do. Having since been sold and re-sold, there is no single archive. We all know THAT story, huh? At least InfoWorld is still findable.
As one who has been blocked on Twitter by AGM, I'd say his "hard guy" thing is bluster. Eh, lots of guys crumple if you challenge them, particularly the ones who make out like they're as hard as the world is hard. My bigger issue is the unseemly thirst: Not that many years ago he was on a television program as a Valley refugee/survivalist, with his country compound, because the balloon was going up. Chaos Monkeys, he told me, was modeled on Martin Amis' "Money," and he had depicted himself as John Self - if so, he sorely misunderstood that estimable novel. I wouldn't necessarily feel unsafe being managed by him, but I might get tired of having to listen.
Q: I’ve never met AGM so don’t have a way to evaluate him as you do. So I’m inclined to believe your take! I did take the time to read Chaos Monkeys, in which I think I learned a lot about Facebook’s culture (regardless of AGM’s success or failure while there). I am finding that useful watching Facebook bashing become a path to celebrity status for the bashers! Definitely not going long on its stock! 🤑
I was able to find this article instantly using Google by typing "Stewart Alsop Paul Davoust NeXT"
Paul is a friend since my Borland stint and was my business partner for years. At the time I was a NeXT machine owner, developer, and advocate. He always disagreed with my enthusiasm and told me about the bet you two had. He turned out to be right. _In the short term_ of your time-boxed bet.
Now, the world is dominated by NeXT software and hardware. I am as shocked and pleased as anyone at what happened 3 years after your mea culpa article.
https://books.google.com/books?id=FjsEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA130&ots=IDeQZpMC-6&dq=stewart%20alsop%20paul%20davoust%20infoworld&pg=PA130#v=onepage&q=stewart%20alsop%20paul%20davoust%20infoworld&f=false
I forgot that I wrote about that bet! I guess I'll write about anything... I certainly remember the bet! Indeed, I have made the argument more recently that my bet was totally correct, just expressed the wrong way. Either you can say that the value Apple placed on NeXt is now worth well more than $1B of its revenue or that the underlying value of the IP Apple bought is now worth at least $1T of its market cap. But the truth is that the real underlying value of Apple's $2T market value really came from the lessons Steve learned from both his first Apple experience combined with his NeXt experience. Did you read Steve Levy's article about Apple's silicon strategy: It's worth it and relevant to his thread: https://link.wired.com/view/5bea0acb24c17c6adf15bc0ff4xbt.qc6/0dcfe2a1
I'm with you. I think: no NeXT, no Apple
Thanks to Google Books and the Internet Archive, your InfoWorld writings are findable., Stewart, albeit maybe with a few more clicks than usual. Fortune, I’m not sure abut.
I've got that Getting Old problem, which ironically I share with my father, who passed in 1974! All of my writings were published Before The Web. I wrote my Fortune column from 1997-2003, while the Internet itself was fulminating, but Time Inc. was thoroughly confused and didn't know what to do. Having since been sold and re-sold, there is no single archive. We all know THAT story, huh? At least InfoWorld is still findable.
As one who has been blocked on Twitter by AGM, I'd say his "hard guy" thing is bluster. Eh, lots of guys crumple if you challenge them, particularly the ones who make out like they're as hard as the world is hard. My bigger issue is the unseemly thirst: Not that many years ago he was on a television program as a Valley refugee/survivalist, with his country compound, because the balloon was going up. Chaos Monkeys, he told me, was modeled on Martin Amis' "Money," and he had depicted himself as John Self - if so, he sorely misunderstood that estimable novel. I wouldn't necessarily feel unsafe being managed by him, but I might get tired of having to listen.
Q: I’ve never met AGM so don’t have a way to evaluate him as you do. So I’m inclined to believe your take! I did take the time to read Chaos Monkeys, in which I think I learned a lot about Facebook’s culture (regardless of AGM’s success or failure while there). I am finding that useful watching Facebook bashing become a path to celebrity status for the bashers! Definitely not going long on its stock! 🤑