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I have to disagree. The politics and power play of the kicking out of Jobs is famous, kind of the textbook case. Woz even quit over it.

The mantle passing to ballmer came at the objection of many major stock holders but some tiny cabal of gates et al overrode it. For years there were protests and threats that people would sell off millions if they didn't can him. There was substantial slippage and he lost all support and bounced, like Lee Iacocca except without any glory days



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