Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20030824021636.10744.00000383@mb-m14.aol.com>,
 supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> >supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> >
> >> I would argue that Apple is the Microsoft of the Mac
> >> world.  Look what they did to their "partners" during
> >> the Mac clone fiasco.
> >
> >Yea, but also take a look at what the Mac cloners were doing to Apple.  
> >The clone companies got Apple to agree on cloning based on the fact that 
> >they would work towards expanding the Mac market.  They didn't do that, 
> >they just went after the market Apple already had.  Splitting up an 
> >already small percentage amongst more companies just didn't work.
> 
> It is called competition and it would have made
> the Mac a more viable alternative to the PC by
> infusing competition based innovation into a
> stagnant platform.

But Apple couldn't compete against both the cloners and the dominance of 
the Wintel world.  As for innovation, I think Apple innovates more than 
just about everyone else these days.  It's taken them a while.

I think that the only way the Mac clones could have really succeeded was 
if the company that was trying to 'clean room' the Mac ROMs/OS had done 
it...following how the PC world did clones.

> Want to see what good clones can do?  Look
> at Palm.

It's easier to do with a device that people are more likely to pick up 
on a whim.  And the world is a many varied place...you can't take what 
one companies done and say it should apply to another.  Reality doesn't 
work that way.

Greg B.

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