[Am-info] Steve Jobs and the History of Cocoa

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.05.14 11:42 AM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>Better than Windows 3.1 and with the whole suite of Macintosh applications,
>  Star Trek could have beaten Windows 95 to the market by more than a year 
>and turned Apple into the dominant market player.

    And by 1997 there would have been no Apple left for Steve Jobs to 
save. The company could never survive on software revenues alone, 
especially in direct competition with Microsoft on the x86 platform, even 
more so before Jobs came back. I don't like Microsoft's tactics, but 
Apple has no business making software for the PC. That's why I'm opposed 
to a pure-Intel port of OS X - unless Apple makes the x86-based systems 
proprietary with ROMs, the software will be pirated, copied, and hacked 
to death. If there was an x86 release of OS X Apple would go under or 
have to raise its operating system prices to Adobe Photoshop levels. The 
current business model and growth potential is the best Apple has had 
since about 1985, and I for one am happy to see it (my investments 
notwithstanding). The stock is going to soar today once Jobs unwraps the 
rackmount server hardware he promised last week. Speaking of that, about 
seven more minutes now until the big show starts... Too bad it isn't 
being streamed. I don't think it is, anyway.



======== Paul Rickard, Editor of The Microsoft Boycott Campaign =======
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  "Instead of worrying about whether or not the government will stop
   Microsoft from innovating in the future, the head honchos in Redmond
   ought to spend some energy trying to figure out what force has
   prevented them from innovating over the past decade."
       -InfoWorld Editor Nicholas Petreley - December 20, 1999