Re: Apple's ways

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Supertimer responded:

>mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:
>
>>Apple's best strategy is (and has been for some time) to port
>>their software environment to "industry standard" platforms
>>to leverage the relentless technology advances financed by
>>the PC industry, which Apple and Motorola can never hope
>>to match.
>
>Wasn't there a time where they tried to do just that?  The
>PowerPC chip was a joint venture comprising of Apple,
>Motorola, and IBM after all.  It is interesting that just a
>couple of days ago, I saw my first PowerPC powered IBM
>computer in my company.  I didn't realize what it was
>until I thumbed through the manual, having always
>assumed it was an x86 PC.
>
>Inside the manual was a schematic of the motherboard
>complete with SCSI port and the PowerPC processor.
>It is a CHRP board: common hardware reference platform.
>This was the standard that bombed after Apple pulled
>out, leaving all the Mac clones plus IBM and Motorola
>holding the pieces.

Nope, IBM and Moto are NOT the PC industry.  Intel and
AMD and all of Taiwan are the PC industry.  PowerPC
will never command the investment needed to keep pace
with the mainstream.

Apple DID try licensing MacOS to clone (Mac) makers, and
had ports of MacOS to the standard Intel x86 boxes at one
time.  But they chickened out--of BOTH clone markets!

-michael

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