Re: OS For IIGS

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

:     I wouldn't call it an unlikely event, more like a highly probable
: event. It is no longer a matter of "if", just "when"; and with the
: way things are going with Steve Jobs back in control, I figure they
: won't even make it through to the end of next year.

I take it you're talking about ending licensing. I can't figure out why
people don't understand why this happened. It made good business sense to
get rid of leech companies siphoning away sales from Apple while paying
a pittance in license fees and expecting Apple to continue R&D with its
dwindling revenue. All the statistics show that the cloners weren't expanding
the market share any.
 
:     The user base will also be like the Apple II situtation. Things
: will keep going for several years, but as hardware development will
: cease and software development soon after, people will start to lose
: interest and move to side platforms (much like many of us II users
: have done). The situtation is like deja-vu, walking into a software
: store, looking at the remaining newsstand Mac publications or hearing
: about companies leaving the scene. It's the Apple II all over again.
: Here's an interesting posting I accidentally stumbled across on
: Dejanews, I could _swear_ it is history repeating itself:

: As a provider of software to the research market, we face the same
: decision as The Math Works. The fraction of sales to the Macintosh
: market is declining fast. Soon, it will no longer make business sense
: for us to continue developing for the Macintosh.

Just another pantywuss vendor buying into the hype.

: Macintosh machines are very reliable, and remain useful for much longer
: than equivalent Windows machines, so we expect that our customers will
: continue to use Macintosh systems for a long time. However, since most
: software sales are for new computers, older Macintosh systems do not
: constitute a significant market.

Interesting observation. And true too, I'm using a box that debuted in '93.

: Our customers need high-performance machines. The clone makers provided
: an alternative to Apple in that niche. It appears that when Apple ended
: the clone market, Apple also convinced our customers that they should
: find an alternative to the Macintosh.

Only short sighted imbeciles swallowed this buncha bullpuckey. I for one
think all revenue from Mac systems should go to the company who does the
R&D on them. 
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