In the Steve Jobs Lost Interview, he was extremely proud of having made Apple the number one company in printers in terms of profit when he was kicked out. He remembered all the business deals he made with Adobe and others to start Apple’s laser printers. You can tell he was sour they pissed away that advantage.
"We actually made the imager, the raster imaging guts for the Apple LaserWriter. And
I was just fascinated by Apple's business model. They shipped, drop shipped from I guess it was Fuji or
from Ricoh or Cannon. I guess it was Cannon. They bought the Cannon engine with no controller and
they told us when to ship the controller, the power cord and the manuals in a box for the customer to put it into the printer. So they never touched the printer at all. It was a brilliant <laughs> business model. No inventory. <laughs> No payables, you know, all receivables. <laughs> "
