The brainstorming sessions were run by then-Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg, who would ultimately head the company's Internet and Windows 95 strategies. He concluded that Apple would be dangerous in only one way: if it put all its resources behind making the company synonymous with this powerful medium called the Internet.
It was the right fear, but the wrong company. Two years later it would be Netscape Communications and its Navigator Web browser that would epitomize the young medium's explosive potential.
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