Re: Apple and the Holy War

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"Dain Neater" <dneater@inebraska.com> wrote:

>> When will Jobs and his following ever learn
>
>I think that Jobs has learned a lot.  He may still be a nut job, but he is
>pushing units.

I agree.  He has at least realized that the customer is important.
I doubt he is going to repeat the same mistake he did with the
Apple II to Mac transition (which was no transition at all, Jobs
actually pit the Mac development group against the rest of
Apple, then Apple II, telling the Mac folks that they were
family and everyone else at Apple was an outsider).  The 68k
to PPC transition at Apple was much much better because it
allowed the users time to migrate.  Jobs was not at Apple
when 68k transitioned to PPC in the Mac world, but I think he
saw how effective this was.

What I would like to see him do is push the Mac without the
whole "me versus the world" evangelist mentality.

On a more real level, I would very much like to see an x86
version of MacOS-X (Rhapsody) which was promised but
was killed.

That Microsoft-Apple deal probably killed it.  Both Jobs and
Gates are at fault.  Microsoft not wanting an x86 MacOS is
a given.  But Jobs?  I think he didn't want it either.  That's
why giving up x86 MacOS to him was nothing and to him,
he got Gates to help Apple without giving up anything.  But
to the user, his actions hurt.

The x86 world would have been new frontier for MacOS.  I
would have bought a copy and many other PC users would
have.

I think Jobs and Gates also collaborated in killing the Mac
clones, which was a terrible move.  Jobs could sell iMacs
and still have clones, but he was not interested and Gates
was all to happy to agree.