Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

<pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

> I never forgave Apple for axing the GS line.  I only tolerated Apple
> when they allowed other, more enlightened companies to make
> PowerPC based platforms more enlightened.  Umax, for example, had
> a line that fixed all of Apple Computers' flaws.  Now the PowerPC
> clone era is over, axed by Apple.  Whatever Jobs' reasons, Apple
> killed good products twice: first the GS, now the PowerPC based
> clones (which are clearly superior to Apple's own PowerMacs just as
> the GS was clearly superior to the Mac Plus).

>--Scott G.
>

The PowerPC clone era is NOT over.  Umax just recently got a license for
Mac OS 8 (none of the other clone makers managed to do this), and it is
going to flourish.  Its clones are still going to be made, and it was
*not* one of the companies that has either had its license taken away or
bought by Apple, nor have they announced that they are giving up making
clones.  There are also at least two other foreign companies that are in
talks with Apple right now about making and helping to design some of
Apple's motherboards, etc.

And the decision to end the GS was not done on Jobs' CEO watch but on
Sculley's.

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