[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

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In <3C1A5B6700013615@mail.san.yahoo.com> (added by
postmaster@mail.san.yahoo.com), on 12/15/01 at 12:07 AM,
   Paul Rickard <pr@ms-bc.com> said:


Amiga was a hardware platform, it died when they stopped producing the
hardware.  Next never had much if any market share to begin with.   4
years ago when Apple made its scumbag deal with the devil, OS/2 still had
a large, though beginning to shrink base.  The QT port for OS/2 was pretty
much complete .  You can get a copy on hobbes now
<http://hobbes.nmsu.edu>, though I don't recall it being available when
people could actually find it useful.  

It was done, it was paid for, it was killed off to please the creeps in
Redmond.  And no one in IBM had (or has) the balls to do a damn thing
about it.

And today, there are still a lot more then 50 OS/2 users around who would
use QT if it were available and current.  But we are talking about 4 years
ago, not today.  Many gave up on OS/2 simply because it couldn't do things
like QT, while the inferior platform had all the fluff stuff.  So I'd say
m$ got what it paid for, same as the rotten deals it made with the
hardware manufacturers and software developers to kill OS/2 support.  It
amazes me how gates can buy people off to do his dirty work so cheap.

And OS/2 remains  undead despite the desires of m$ and IBM.  IBM has tried
its damnedest to kill OS/2, but it just keeps being used because it works
and the alternatives can't do the job.


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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>   would be nervous if my system was built on their technology, too."
>       -Sun Microsystems President Scott McNealy

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