Re: An interesting read on Apple, Microsoft, and what could have been

[Charles <spammeister12345@aol.com>]

In article <09XRc.34355$wC3.13087@okepread07>, 
salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org says...

> This link turned up on Slashdot:
> 
> http://daringfireball.net/2004/08/parlay
> 
> The Art of the Parlay, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Platform
> Licensing and Market Share
> 
> The article debunks the idea that Apple would necessarily have become the
> behemoth that Microsoft did become if it had made a few different decisions
> years ago--let other companies build Mac clones, evolve the Mac out of the
> Apple II instead of starting over from scratch, etc.  (The article makes no
> mention of the IIGS as the proposed evolutionary development, but then given
> what Apple did with it (or, more accurately, didn't do with it), maybe
> that's somewhat understandable.)
> 

That's a darned good analysis.  It made me rethink some things regarding 
Apple Computer, Inc., for sure. :)

Charles