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

[Mitch Stone]

I'm not one of the people arguing for OS X on (generic) Intel. I also 
think this would be suicidal for Apple. But that's now -- I'm talking ten 
years ago, in the Win 3.1 timeframe. If Microsoft hadn't hammerlocked the 
hardware industry back then, I think we could have been looking at a very 
different landscape today.

On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 01:53 , Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== 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 =======
> --------------------------------[ Http://www.msboycott.com ]-----------
>

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com