The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
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Re: The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
#2This is a good story (it contains some details that I don't think were publicly revealed back in 1996) but the title is misleading since NT plays a very minor part.
Edit: I'm not sure which embarrasses me more; the fact that this old story got 30 points or that my trivial comment got 16 points.
Re: The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
#3great movie idea!
Re: The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
#4This is a good story (it contains some details that I don't think were publicly revealed back in 1996) but the title is misleading since NT plays a very minor part. Edit: I'm not sure which embarrasses me more; the fact that this old story got 30 points or that my trivial comment got 16 points.
I agree. Sensationalist title that isn't even the real title of the article.
Re: The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
#5This is a good story (it contains some details that I don't think were publicly revealed back in 1996) but the title is misleading since NT plays a very minor part. Edit: I'm not sure which embarrasses me more; the fact that this old story got 30 points or that my trivial comment got 16 points.
I agree. Sensationalist title that isn't even the real title of the article.
To be fair, it is right up at the top of the page.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree. Sensationalist title that isn't even the real title of the article.
To be fair, it is right up at the top of the page.
I looked at the and it says "Apple Confidential: The Acquisition of NeXT". Since the actual title at the top of the page isn't bold or a larger text size I tuned it out thinking it was an advertisement.
Re: The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, it is right up at the top of the page.
I looked at the and it says "Apple Confidential: The Acquisition of NeXT". Since the actual title at the top of the page isn't bold or a larger text size I tuned it out thinking it was an advertisement.
The Internet has ads?
Re: The Day They Almost Decided To Put Windows NT On The Mac Instead Of OS X
#8This is a good story (it contains some details that I don't think were publicly revealed back in 1996) but the title is misleading since NT plays a very minor part. Edit: I'm not sure which embarrasses me more; the fact that this old story got 30 points or that my trivial comment got 16 points.
Indeed, this might at least be better titled "The Day They Almost Decided To Put BeOS On The Mac Instead Of OS X"
But that's a genuinely fascinating alternate-history concept -- Windows NT was never likely, but from the story, it seems as if Be almost made it, foiled only by its founder's hubris. What if Jean-Louis Gassée had settled for one of Apple's numerous offers? It seems he had it in the bag for months, holding out for more until he got too greedy and Apple turned to Jobs.
If Gassée hadn't been blinded by the dollar signs, what would have become of BeOS in Apple's hands? Would an alternate-universe, Be-based OSX have still saved the company? Would Jobs have gone down with his NeXT ship, and simply laid low for the 2000s? We'd have no iPod, no iPhone; Apple in 2010 would be either a Sun or an SGI.
Or maybe it couldn't have happened any other way. Maybe Jobs knew Gassée would push his luck too far and timed NeXT's overtures to Apple. Maybe he had done all the research, knew all the angles, and had planned this from the start. Maybe, just maybe, there was no force of nature that could stop Jobs' return to Apple.
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#9> “Amelio now admits that Apple overpaid for NeXT”
Really? The result seems to have been worth the price to Apple shareholders.
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#10> “Amelio now admits that Apple overpaid for NeXT” Really? The result seems to have been worth the price to Apple shareholders.
"now" = 1999 when the book was written. The "Apple is doomed" perma-meme was still going in those days.