• Jean-Louis Gassée (born 24 March 1944) is a business executive. He is best known as a former executive at Apple Computer, where he worked from 1981 to...
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    computer. It was founded in 1990 by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée, who also served as the company's CEO, and was based in Menlo Park...
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    that is well below that of any competitive offering." BeBox creator Jean-Louis Gassée did not see the BeBox as a general consumer device, warning that "Before...
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  • French musical instrument maker Jean-Louis Carra (fr) (1742–1793), a French activist and politician Jean-Louis Gassée (born 1944), best known as an executive...
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    BeOS is the product of Apple Computer's former business executive Jean-Louis Gassée, with the underlying philosophy of building a "media OS" capable of...
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  • described Baby Mac as his "best design never to be produced", while Jean-Louis Gassée considered it to be a toy. Esslinger and the design team investigated...
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    period, the relationship between Sculley and Gassée deteriorated, leading Sculley to effectively demote Gassée in January 1990 by appointing Michael Spindler...
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  • source of record. Apple employees, following the example of executive Jean-Louis Gassée, at times referred to it as "MacLeak", yet some relied on it to distribute...
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  • the company in 1988 after leaving Symantec in the spring of 1988. Jean-Louis Gassée, who resigned in 1990 as chief of Apple's product development, came...
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    in 1985, product development was handed to Jean-Louis Gassée, formerly the manager of Apple France. Gassée consistently pushed the Apple product line...
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    a Tech Talk at Googleplex, attended by ex-Be engineers as well as Jean-Louis Gassée who voiced his support for the project. There is also an annual conference...
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  • negotiations to buy BeOS from Be Inc. but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée demanded $275 million; Apple was unwilling to offer more than $200 million...
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  • the Newton shipped to set up Be Inc. with former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée. At Be, he led development of the original BeBox, personally developed...
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  • illness on September 5, 2016. His longtime friend and business partner Jean-Louis Gassée stated, "Mike was an original, highly cultured mind, with high-level...
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  • the Apple Macintosh, he visited the Apple Expo in Paris and met Jean-Louis Gassée. Gassée, who had just left Apple Computer to found Be, asked Schillings...
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    some indication that Apple executives at the time, particularly, Jean-Louis Gassée, were aware of the design problems concerning the Macintosh Portable...
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    September 2013. Chapman, Matthew (5 July 2012). "Former Apple Exec Jean-Louis Gassée: Nokia Should Fire CEO Stephen Elop". International Business Times...
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  • Many IoT devices have the potential to take a piece of this market. Jean-Louis Gassée (Apple initial alumni team, and BeOS co-founder) has addressed this...
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    often not reinstalled if ever removed. At the IIcx's introduction, Jean-Louis Gassée demonstrated the IIcx's modular design by assembling one from parts...
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    switching to PowerPC hardware by a team led by former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassée as an alternative to Mac OS. BeOS was later ported to Intel hardware...
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  • Apple User Group Connection (AUGC). Former Macintosh division lead Jean-Louis Gassée, a Frenchman, was an advocate in France for personal computing, and...
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    ousted Jobs from his executive role at Apple and replaced him with Jean-Louis Gassée.: 291  Later that year, Jobs began a power struggle to regain control...
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    development of Power Macintosh technology dates back to mid-1988. Jean-Louis Gassée, president of Apple's product division, started the "Jaguar" project...
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  • fully realize the subtleties of managing small high-tech companies. Jean-Louis Gassée (September 16, 2018). "The Exxon Delusion". Monday Note. Retrieved...
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    released in 1987 and bundled with every Macintosh. In the late 1980s, Jean-Louis Gassée, a Sculley protégé who had succeeded Jobs as head of the Macintosh...
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  • IATA airport code Jean-Luc Godard, French film-maker, or his autobiographical film JLG/JLG, autoportrait de décembre Jean-Louis Gassée, founder of Be Inc...
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    windowing operating system developed by Be Inc. which was founded by Jean-Louis Gassée, a former Apple executive. It was strongly considered as a replacement...
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    Apple in 1985, product development was handed to Jean-Louis Gassée, formerly manager of Apple France. Gassée consistently pushed the Apple product line in...
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    Apple's former senior vice president of research and development, Jean-Louis Gassée; his team included Steve Capps, co-writer of Mac OS Finder, and an...
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    programming language VisSim by Visual Solutions.[citation needed] Jean-Louis Gassée was with Data General in France before moving to Apple Computer and...
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