In the 1980s, Bill Gates told Apple’s CEO at the time, John Sculley (the former soft drink executive), that he should license the Mac OS. As far as Gates was concerned, Apple would own the market.
Well, what really happened was that Sculley, in his infinite stupidity, actually licensed some of the Mac OS to Microsoft, [...]

In show business, you often hear the phrase “overnight sensation” when someone suddenly becomes famous. But the truth is quite often left unsaid, that the person in question actually struggled as a virtual unknown for years before finding the brass ring.
Now you can’t say Apple took terribly long to become a major player in the [...]