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

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.05.14 01:15 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>But -- if a company like Dell had begun to ship MacOS computers, that 
>might have been a real shot in the arm for Apple's mainstream credibility.
>  Some of the same profit and management issues would have remained, but at 
>least this scenario had -some- hope of succeeding.

    If Microsoft did not exist this would be fine. But with Microsoft 
around, Apple would have been doomed if it gained access to PC OEMs and 
started making an x86 Macintosh Operating System. I stand by that claim, 
even now - if Dell started selling machines with OS X next month Apple 
would be pushing up daisies within five years. Beautiful, powerful, 
exclusive hardware drives software sales as well as profitability. 
Software is too easily broken, copied, or stolen for a smaller player to 
make serious money with it alone.


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