Re: Apple's in the black

["Tom Zuchowski" <tjz@mindspring.com>]

Randy Shackelford <shack@deimos.frii.com> wrote in article
<54u0ha$49d@europa.frii.com>...
> Um, how can you say clones are killing Apple when Apple makes money for 
> nothing on 'em due to licensing? This is a good way for MacOS to make
inroads
> into the wintel market and pry people away from evil Microsoft. I like
it.
> I'll continue to buy real Apple myself because all the clones look like
> cheesy, thrown together peices of crap like your average PC. Apple has
always
> made the best looking and engineered boxes on the market.

I can say that because the Mac clones are not making inroads into Wintel
market share, they are taking market share from Apple.

> I'm a little behind the times since I spent so long in Mississippi, where
the
> locals know nothing about Apple hardware and have never seen a laserdisc
> either. So I'm not too up on this Be stuff but I did see that our good
friend
> Jean-Louis Gassee is behind it.

Heh. I'd never heard of Be either before I read that article.  Apparently
our friend Jean-Louis has a really hot property there in the form of a
=highly= advanced OS.  I got the impression that the Be OS is as far
advanced beyond the Mac OS as the Mac OS was beyond Windows 3.0.  The
USN&WR article opined that adopting the Be OS might possibly be the only
thing that can stop Apple's slide.

TomZ