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Thu, 21 Sep 2006 David Pogue on Apple's lowest moment

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New York Times technology columnist David Pogue has taken a look at Apple's changing fortunes across the last decade, beginning when the company looked like a dead duck in the late 90s.

"Nowadays, Apple is a media darling. The critics like the company's direction, and so does Wall Street," he observes, noting that 1996 was Apple's lowest point, a year before current CEO Steve Jobs returned to the company he helped launch from his parent's garage.

Pogue has gathered a multitude of reports from the time – all of which predict the death of the company. These reports offer a sorry series of problems, reflecting huge losses, massive order backlogs, possible takeovers and an optimistic statement from a Microsoft tech officer of the time declaring: "Apple is already dead".

"Now, obviously, all of these commentators were wildly, hilariously, embarrassingly wrong," Pogue declares.

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