[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2001.12.14 06:03 PM, madodel@ptdprolog.net typed: 
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>And lets not forget that m$ pumped $500 million into Apple a few years
>back.  Amazing coincidence at the same time Apple dropped its port of
>QuickTime for OS/2 which was being paid for by IBM.  Claimed as a cost
>saving and resource conservation move, but seemed extremely stupid as IBM
>was paying them to write it.  gates always gets a big payoff for his
>little investments.
>
>Mark

     If I've explained it once, I've explained it 50 times... Microsoft 
paid Apple off for dropping its lawsuits and bundling IE with Mac OS. 
Then they shorted an equal number of Apple shares so that they wouldn't 
be out any money no matter how the stock actually did. The OS/2 thing is 
just so Apple doesn't have to spend countless manhours porting Quicktime 
to an operating system with about 50 people who would actually use QT. 
IBM may or may not have paid Apple to do it, but the benefit apparently 
wasn't enough. OS/2 is a fine system, but it has no users. They no longer 
produce software for NeXT, either. Not many people porting for the Amiga. 
Nothing inherently wrong with the systems but they have a limited user 
base and thus litte demand for the softwware. It's not necessarily fair, 
but it's life. Economics 101. IBM killed it, as you've said before, and 
Apple has no reason to produce any software for it. They don't produce 
AppleWorks for OS/2, either, and there are plenty of Apple applications 
that don't have versions for OS/2 OR Windows. *sighs*

     Please don't take this as an attack, I don't mean for it to be.



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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