Apple Computer Inc’s John Sculley also told the Journal that he and Michael Spindler started looking for a partner early last year and visited the top executives of all the major computer companies: high on Sculley’s list of priorities was the need to differentiate Apple computers from Microsoft Corp’s Windows 3.0, hence the object-oriented Pink development – but, again showing perspicacity seldom found in computer company chiefs, he didn’t believe that Apple could successfully introduce a major new operating system on its own, saying it needed another significant player backing it to make it a success.
