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scotty321 said:
At first, I actually misinterpreted the headline to read that Bill Campbell had died, which would be even BETTER news… but this news will still suffice as the best news of the day.
Are you real? Sorry, but wishing someone dead is just insanity. No other words for it. Hope your post gets removed by one of the administrators.
 
Are you real? Sorry, but wishing someone dead is just insanity. No other words for it. Hope your post gets removed by one of the administrators.

I never said that I wished he was dead. I said that I misinterpreted the headline to mean that he had already died.
 
Finally, this disgusting parasite of a human being is gone!! Good riddance to this disgusting man who has done more to hurt the Mac platform than almost any other man in existence. The man who has always allowed his company Intuit to treat all Mac users like second-class citizens, which still continues to this day. The man who has never lifted a finger of good for the Mac platform. The man who allowed his company to drop all support for Quicken for the Mac, then drop all support for QuickBooks for the Mac, then reluctantly bring back QuickBooks after many years, but still never brought back Quicken and still keeps QuickBooks paralyzed with 99% less features than the Windows versions of QuickBooks. The man who allowed his company to never develop any other accounting products for the Mac. The man who made everyone in the entire tech industry doubt that the Mac was a viable business machine. Why Steve Jobs was EVER friends with this pathetic human being is beyond me. Good riddance. At first, I actually misinterpreted the headline to read that Bill Campbell had died, which would be even BETTER news… but this news will still suffice as the best news of the day.

I think you've taken this a bit too far. While yes, Intuit's treatment of Mac users probably prevented quite a lot of Windows users from becoming Apple customers, calling him a disgusting parasite and claiming it would be better news is a bit much.
 
Campbell's company sure showed Apple a lot of love. How he remained so close to Steve is a mystery to me.

Bet line I heard on how to be close to Steve is to have as much success as him while also never giving into his mood swings.
 
But I don't want Apple to 'grow up'. They tried that before, and it almost killed the company.

Oh, and Steve is really dead this time, and can't save it again...

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Bet line I heard on how to be close to Steve is to have as much success as him while also never giving into his mood swings.

Not reacting to mean people is a lesson worth learning, but a hard one for many people to learn...

Remembering that it is THEY that have the problem is key...
 
Yeah.... more a personal friendship than a corporate one

I get the distinct impression he stayed on the board because Steve Jobs got along with him on some personal level. Otherwise, why would he even consider it something he could "live with" that one of his board members also consulted with Google?

Some might argue that Intuit only made the token effort they did to revisit the Mac with Quicken BECAUSE Bill Campbell was on their board ... but you're right; it's ridiculous he'd let Intuit carry on for 10 YEARS with the embarrassing excuse for Mac OS X software they had.

Even weirder, IMO, is the fact Intuit still released an OS X native version of TurboTax for Mac each year which basically worked just fine, AND a Mac version of Quickbooks -- yet Quicken, which would almost HAVE to have a wider audience, still got ignored so badly.


My biggest gripe with Bill Campbell is that for almost a decade now he has allowed Intuit/Quicken for the Mac to languish with problems of incompatibility with OSX (Lion, I believe), iOS, lack of support, lack of improvements and sheer and utter lack of responsiveness.

Quicken was a piece of software that was an early hit with the Mac Community -- nothing else including the Intuit-owned Mint (anybody heard anything about that lately?) has even come close to taking Quicken's place.

Mr. Campbell ought to give the software to Apple and let it get the development it's due. Now that it's APPLE/IBM such an action might be worthy.

It always has bothered me that Campbell's Intuit just ignored the Mac audience that helped building the company and has continued to adapt, improve and support the Windows world.

I, for one, think a not so very good friend has left the building and his exit need not be bemoaned.
 
But I don't want Apple to 'grow up'. They tried that before, and it almost killed the company.

Oh, and Steve is really dead this time, and can't save it again...

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Not reacting to mean people is a lesson worth learning, but a hard one for many people to learn...

Remembering that it is THEY that have the problem is key...

Learned that one the hard way. Not reacting to angry nor reacting to passive aggressive types gets you places. Just finished up a round of "start-up chess" assessing the first dozen hires of a new outfit. One red flag was this throwback Scully-era, ex-Apple software engineer who somehow manage to BS his way into the engineering lead.

Skills were acceptable but way too conspiracy minded while keeping other talent from moving into "his space" reflecting the feudal mindset of pre-OS X over in Cupertino. Hence, passive aggressive as hell. Will be fun handing this guy.
 
Reppin' the burgh!

Bill is one of many who got the hell out of the 'burgh after Westinghouse shut down their computer division in the 1970's. If they kept with it, Westinghouse would have been up there with Data General and DEC during the mini-frame era. Many engineers from Westinghouse left and started the early PC business elsewhere.

The town has some hope now. Last 4th of July one of the biggest old steel money barons died. Many from the Ohio Valley came out west to avoid the near witch hunt of technology start up companies in the region for the past two generations.

Was told that many of the old steel money families fears new silicon money coming in and displacing them out of their high society. With this guy gone, be interesting to see what unravels.
 
My biggest gripe with Bill Campbell is that for almost a decade now he has allowed Intuit/Quicken for the Mac to languish with problems of incompatibility with OSX (Lion, I believe), iOS, lack of support, lack of improvements and sheer and utter lack of responsiveness.

Quicken was a piece of software that was an early hit with the Mac Community -- nothing else including the Intuit-owned Mint (anybody heard anything about that lately?) has even come close to taking Quicken's place.

Mr. Campbell ought to give the software to Apple and let it get the development it's due. Now that it's APPLE/IBM such an action might be worthy.

It always has bothered me that Campbell's Intuit just ignored the Mac audience that helped building the company and has continued to adapt, improve and support the Windows world.

I, for one, think a not so very good friend has left the building and his exit need not be bemoaned.

The irony of the Intuit Chairman being on the board of Apple cannot be ignored. Good riddance.
 
No kidding. Not to mention the poisoning of the environment that they will cause.

Mean people suck.

You have that right. Unfortunately he has a lot of the classic red flags of a start-up problem participant. 1) middle-age single with no children, 2) conspiracy minded, 3) little personal estate value, 4) long history of company hopping, and most of all 5) no management experience resulting from poor social skills. I'll probably end up putting in some of my people and let them slug it out on the prototype bench.
 
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