Ronnie Wayne and his lost Apple Billions!

[AMG Merc]

Probably done before but I do feel for Old Ronnie (although they asked him back a few years later and he declined preferring the slot machine business).

I think his 10% stock would be worth $64.4B at today's share price. How would you live with that?



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2388674/Th...

[cobra kid]

Depends how quick their rise in fortunes was I suppose. If it was instantaneous then I would feel terrible. But if it was gradual over many years then not so bad.

If you get my drift.

[Foliage]

This kinda thing could be said for anyone though, if instead of buying the first ipod, you'd purchased the same cost in share's you'd have made quite a bit of money.

[Composite Guru]

Well I suppose Ronnie is thankful he's still alive. Maybe Jobs killed himself making the company what it is today. Not much use to you when you are dead though.

[TheJimi]

I feel for Ronnie

Had I made a couple of different decisions back in the day, I wouldn't need to work right now.

I *actually* had financial freedom within my grasp and I blew it

[Countdown]

Didn't Apple nearly go bankrupt about 18 years ago? At that point I imagine Ronnie was feeling smugger than Professor Smug, holder of the Jeffrey Archer Chair of Smugness at Cambridge University

Also, had Ronnie been a major sharegolder, he might have suggested to the others "Look guys, I've been speaking to Alan sugar and I think we need to invest in an E-mailer". It could have gone either way....

[TheJimi]

Fair points!

[ZesPak]

True that, I had to Google "Emailer" which says enough.

[AMG Merc]

Countdown said:

Didn't Apple nearly go bankrupt about 18 years ago? At that point I imagine Ronnie was feeling smugger than Professor Smug, holder of the Jeffrey Archer Chair of Smugness at Cambridge University

Also, had Ronnie been a major sharegolder, he might have suggested to the others "Look guys, I've been speaking to Alan sugar and I think we need to invest in an E-mailer". It could have gone either way....

Goood points all.

Now that Amstrad emailer was a dog - not really Sugar's fault, more BT. And didn't it have a non-querty keyboard as well? I once partnered with Sugar back in the day selling his PCs and our network system. I recall some "interesting" stories from his PA (who was at the time a friend's GF)

[TheJimi]

AMG Merc said:

Countdown said:

Didn't Apple nearly go bankrupt about 18 years ago? At that point I imagine Ronnie was feeling smugger than Professor Smug, holder of the Jeffrey Archer Chair of Smugness at Cambridge University

Also, had Ronnie been a major sharegolder, he might have suggested to the others "Look guys, I've been speaking to Alan sugar and I think we need to invest in an E-mailer". It could have gone either way....

Goood points all.

Now that Amstrad emailer was a dog - not really Sugar's fault, more BT. And didn't it have a non-querty keyboard as well? I once partnered with Sugar back in the day selling his PCs and our network system. I recall some "interesting" stories from his PA (who was at the time a friend's GF)

I had an emailer, and fairly sure the keyboard was QWERTY.

The emailer *kinda* worked as intended, but it wasn't a very polished experience, even back then. Certainly a Nokia phone of the time was far more slick and user-friendly, and had better screens.

Amstrad were, however, ahead of their time in terms of pushing monetised content and services via the emailer.

[soad]

QWERTY keyboard.

[bimsb6]

Did amstrad ever make anything any good though ? I always regarded them as the netto of electronics and would have been gutted to have been given any of there stuff over the japanese alternatives.

[Mr E]

bimsb6 said:

Did amstrad ever make anything any good though ? I always regarded them as the netto of electronics and would have been gutted to have been given any of there stuff over the japanese alternatives.

I cut my computing teeth on a CPC464; and it was a reasonably decent example of a Z80. Yes, a spectrum was a lot cheaper.

[bimsb6]

I should add that i was born in 1963 so my initial distaste for anything amstrad was well before the computer age .

[Pints]

bimsb6 said:

Did amstrad ever make anything any good though ? I always regarded them as the netto of electronics and would have been gutted to have been given any of there stuff over the japanese alternatives.

Sky boxes are Amstrad products, are they not?

[bimsb6]

Pints said:

bimsb6 said:

Did amstrad ever make anything any good though ? I always regarded them as the netto of electronics and would have been gutted to have been given any of there stuff over the japanese alternatives.

Sky boxes are Amstrad products, are they not?

Some not all i believe .

[soad]

bimsb6 said:

Did amstrad ever make anything any good though ? I always regarded them as the netto of electronics and would have been gutted to have been given any of there stuff over the japanese alternatives.

Should ask him on twitter?

[Vaud]

bimsb6 said:

Did amstrad ever make anything any good though ? I always regarded them as the netto of electronics and would have been gutted to have been given any of there stuff over the japanese alternatives.

They did a video recorder that was simple to use in about 1991. Was a good seller, it cut out a lot of the features that most did not use and focused on the user.

It was not very reliable, but the idea was good.

[bimsb6]

Vaud said:

They did a video recorder that was simple to use in about 1991. Was a good seller, it cut out a lot of the features that most did not use and focused on the user.

It was not very reliable, but the idea was good.

Lol just what you want , something not as good as the competion or very reliable .

[jjones]

bimsb6 said:

Some not all i believe .

And there is a certain amount of irony that the Amstrad ones were the more reliable HD ones!