On Jan 15, 3:24 pm, BLuRry <brendan.rob...@gmail.com> wrote:
Indeed! I remember a day before AppleTalk became AOL, dumped the //
series and began to suck very quickly, there were many interesting
conversations afoot with BurgerB[ill|ecky] concerning the Avatar.
Too bad it never panned out. :-/
I dunno. Economy of scale demands that there be a degree of
homogenisation in computer hardware, and most of the serious
components are complex enough that they need entire companies devoted
to just that component. Apple (quite intelligently) repositioned
itself as a software company that does its own hardware and whilst
that transition was very painful for the existing customer base, it
turned out to be a winning strategy long term.