Talk:John Sculley

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Contents 1 Low Quality Article 2 "Sculley Era" POV 3 Which strategy? 4 destruction of Apple's engineering department 5 GA Sweeps (on hold)

[edit] Low Quality Article

This article is quite poorly written and in need of an almost complete rewrite. It is an overly glorified biography of John Sculley and contains unverifiable value statements like "He is best known". I don't know how it was once considered a good article but it is clearly in need of work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Simonmetcalf (talk • contribs) 16:30, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Sculley Era" POV

The "Sculley Era" part is really POV. The years after he got rid of Steve Jobs were the most profitable. -- Robert X. Cringely

• I agree, I'll see what I can do. — Wackymacs 08:50, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

It's also the time during which Apple managment degenerated into hopeless dysfunctionality. Sculley squandered Apple's technical leadership, and thoroughly demoralized its engineers.

• lets not forget that the profitablity of apple in the scully years was a result of the desktop publishing boom- a market which apple had a monopoly in, untill the mid 90s - the groundwork for which was done in the apple-adobe postscript-laserwriter deal which steve jobs led before he was ousted by scully. AFAIK. herenot 14:46, 22 January 2006

• I agree about the POV. During the middle of the Sculley years, Apple had the highest revenue per employee of any company in the computer industry. Also during this time, Apple introduced the Powerbook, which was an immense success and introduced such innovations as the trackpad to mainstream laptop users. For a brief time Apple had the largest market share in the industry (I think it was about 15%, just beating IBM. This was around 1991-92.) And while the PowerPC decision looks wrong in hindsight, at the time it was seen as betting on the future of microprocessor design (RISC) against the past (CISC). It also represented a partnership with IBM, who were simultaneously hoping that OS/2 for PowerPC would end their dependence on Microsoft. And Apple was widely praised for the seamless transition from 68K to PPC. Miahavero (talk) 19:34, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Which strategy?

He is best known for his marketing skills, particularly in his introduction of 'the Pepsi Challenge' at PepsiCo, which allowed the company to gain market share over its rival, Coca Cola. Sculley followed this strategy at Apple throughout the 1980s and 1990s

Samsara (talk • contribs) 17:45, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

His marketing strategy, it says it right there. — Wackymacs 18:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I've changed the wording slightly, is it better? — Wackymacs 18:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] destruction of Apple's engineering department

This paragraph is true (I was there), but needs to be sourced, does it not?

[edit] GA Sweeps (on hold)

This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed.

The article does not cite source of many important statements. I marked them with appropriate tags. It is important because the article is about a living person.

I will check back in no less than seven days. If progress is being made and issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Regards, Ruslik 09:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Since there is no answer I will delist this article. Ruslik (talk) 08:46, 13 December 2007 (UTC)