Coming Next Week, The Big Apple Interview

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If you liked Wednesday’s interview with Apple ad man Ken Segall, just wait until you see what we’ve got coming next week.

We have an exclusive interview with one of the top people in the Apple story. I’d say they were number 3: the third most influential person in Apple’s history.

This is the first time they spoken publicly about Apple in many, many years. They have some good stories, a lot of fascinating insights, and a couple of surprises.

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Can you guess who it is?

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Ronald
Woz? No he’s the 2nd guy… Umm… He’s active at Apple?
Pete Mortensen
Jean-Louis Gassee?
John Sculley?
Jon Rubinstein?
Someone whose name isn’t a variant on “John”?
Gazoobee
John Sculley is a no-nothing businessman
Jon Rubenstein … yawn
pete
Scott Forstall perhaps?
Maybe Phil Schiller, he’s been trying to get in touch with this community ..
NickBob
My bet’s on Avi.
Marky Mark
Mark Markkula?
Mike Scott?
John Sculley?
or are we talking just Macintosh? Any of the people who signed the inside of the Mac 128, including but not limited to, Bill Atkinson, Chris Espinosa, Bill Fernadez, Andy Hertzfeld, Joanna Hoffman, Bruce Horn, Steve Capps, Dan Kottke, Jerry Manock, Burrell Smith, Guy Tribble, Randy Wigginton?
then we have the people who have had a big hand in making it a success:
Guy Kowasaki, Paul Brainerd at Aldus, John Warnock at Adobe, Bill Gates (ironically) etc, etc.
How long would you like the list to be?
Pooria
I like Scott, but obviously he’s not the 3rd!! and neither is Phil.
and if you interview “John Sculley”, the same guy who fired Jobs, as Apple’s third most influential, I’ll stop reading “Cult of Mac”; seriously.
who could it be? It couldn’t be Ive either… I never thought selecting someone as Apple’s number 3 could be so hard!!!
can’t wait till ‘next week’!!
francis
the sugar water salesman is probably responsible for apple being below 5 percent market share to this day. very important and influential.
http://foresmac.tumblr.com foresmac
Well, this person has hair, so it’s obviously not Jonny Ive.
Gene
Whoever it is, was he ambushed in front of a cheap chain hotel?
Lawrence
Johnny Ive?
Invictus
I’m willing to bet on my NeXT Tubo setup (pizzabox/21inch pixel display + NeXT Laser Printer) that it’s Avi. I and another friend of mine many years ago had drinks with him, very nice and very cool/laid-back guy…..we didn’t even talk about Apple, computers or technology, but instead it was sports.
Phil Schiller
Its me!
inailuy
i think its STEVE woz
OlsonBW
My guess is the first or second big investors in Apple. I don’t have access to that info but either one of them would be my guess.
CaryMG
It’s either Scotty or MM.
http://blog.iloveflycasual.com Jason
It’s gotta be Ive.
PChez
Description would be appropriate for MM = Mike Markkula who was Apple employee number 3 and the person who Woz credited for the success of Apple more than himself. [see Jason Zasky, "The Failure Interview: Apple Computer Co-Founder Steve Wozniak"]. MM was their initial investor without whose seed money they wouldn’t have been able to get off the ground when they did. In return he was initially 1/3rd owner of Apple in the early days.
skids544
Can you guess that I don’t care?
http://www.grizzlymedia.co.uk mcal27
Gil Ameilio?? Ok ok I’m joking…I’m joking!!!!! :-)
DocIzzy
Based on photo background & profile more so than your hints: I’m guessing Ron Johnson head of retail.
colin
Personally i’d edge towards Jony Ive. But if we’re going by the picture it looks like Bertrand Serlet.
GugurDaun
My guess is also on Mike Markkula.
http://www.apple.com pdmcmahon
Considering that it comes right after a story about an Apple Store opening in France, I am going to say Bertand Serlet….
Bertrand
My bet is Ronald Wayne.
http://asdf.com asdf
Sina Tamaddon????
mat
the picture cut out looks like a good head of hair. my guess ron johnson fo sho.
jon1
Bud Tribble
http://www.twitter.com/jazzyl jazzyl
Woz
Andrea
I go for Ron Wayne, in the sense of “third”, or Guy “best friggin’ evangelist evah” Kawasaki.
chano
Oh gosh I guess it must be that umm VP guy, that wossaname .. Wookie Woo. Right?
You are a senior editor and you say ‘This is the first time they spoken publicly about Apple’. Jesus wept! So you don’t believe in editing your own work? Or perhaps you don’t know what an editor does?
Eve
Bertrand Serlet… the hair cut ;-)
Yannis
I know it’s probably not him, but I would LOVE to be Scott Forstall
http://www.allaboutstevejobs.com Romain
I hope it’s not Sculley, gee….
Avie Tevanian would be very interesting.
Duane Rochester
I could give a….
saman Jebeli-Javan
did i miss this? can you please send me the link?
Mathias Johnsen
Has this interview been published yet??

http://cultofmac.com Leander Kahney
@Mathias. no it hasn’t. well spotted. it got delayed, and now there’s thanksgiving happening. i’m planning on early next week. monday or tuesday. thanks for asking.