John Sculley
John Sculley
John Sculley IIIis an American businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-presidentand president of Pepsi-Cola, until he became chief executive officer of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993. In May 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$2.2 million...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 April 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.
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Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
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Apple does magical things, but it does magical things that are a combination of a product, a service, a system, and an experience with no compromised standards. But you don't see Apple off trying to replicate Facebook, and I think it would be surprising to me if Apple went off and said, 'We're going to replicate a Facebook just for health care.'
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I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.
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I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.
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One thing about Apple is they have these fanboys - as I always say, 'Sell to the people who love us.' For example when they came up with iPad mini, everyone who had an iPad went out and bought a mini as well.
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Of all the Internet companies we're involved with, this one is by far the most technologically ambitious,
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My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.
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It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
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When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.
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Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.
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Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
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Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.
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Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.