[coldtea]

>Let's not be overly dramatic about that period. Apple was not days away from going bust. They were months away from filing bankruptcy. They were still a multi-billion dollar company even then.

So? No shortage of "multi-billion dollar companies" that became footnotes. Blackberry. Nokia. SGI. ...

Let's be overly dramatic, cause it's more accurate to how bad they had it.

[pjmlp]

Nokia is hardly a footnote, they even own UNIX birthplace nowadays.

People only know Nokia Mobiles, however Nokia Neteworks never went away and is more than healthy, owning plenty of key telecommunications infrastructure world wide.

[coldtea]

>Nokia is hardly a footnote, they even own UNIX birthplace nowadays.

It's not exactly the pinnacle of corporate achievement owning a non-relevant for decades labs. Might as well own the birthplace of ENIAC too.

But also not very relevant to the discussion: Nokia had the infrastructure busines to rely on, while it's consumer side tanked. Apple only had the tanking consumer side. That side of Nokia is what we're comparing it with.

[pjmlp]

What matters is being critical infrastructure for others to actually use their iPhones.