age, was George Orwell right about 1984?" "Despite Steve Jobs' showmanship, the IBM PC was hurting Apple's business." "And most pundits considered that..." "Apple was going to be out of business in a few short months." "Business Week ran an article on their cover saying ehm "It's Over" " IBM Has Won."" "The Mac team saw themselves as Apple's pirates but the gang was now being called on to save the ship, as the Apple II was losing precious market share." "In the case of the Macintosh team, they were behind schedule in getting the Mac out which was not unusual in high technology" "and so just getting that product to market was extremely important." "After many delays, a date for the launch of the Mac was announced."life changed to building a career as a computer artist." "The success of desk-top publishing came too late for Apple's founder." "In 1985 Mac sales were still flat but Jobs refused to believe the numbers." "He simply behaved as if the Mac was a hot seller from the start." "The grandiose plans of what Macintosh were going to be was just so far out of whack with the truth of what the product was doing and the truth of what the product was doing was not horrible it was salvagable" "but the gap between the two was just so unthinkable that somebody had to do something and that somebody was John Sculley." "John Sculley, whom Jobs saw as his own creation, presented the board with his strategy to