Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

[Richard Kilpatrick <richard@dmc12.demon.co.uk>]

In message <20030821061922.06546.00000278@mb-m28.aol.com>, Supertimer 
<supertimer@aol.com> writes
> It is just that it is very funny that IBM designed it.
> In the PC world, this is no surprise at all.  But
> remember, in the Apple world until recently IBM
> was the big evil "Big Brother."

Recently being 1992ish, of course - IBM had a lot of input into the 
original Power architecture with Motorola. We're all familiar with the 
hammer thrown at the screen, and at the time it was accurate. Now IBM 
has had to move with the times. Apple isn't a garage company, IBM isn't 
a monopoly.

In many ways, Apple did defeat Big Brother. It's a shame that it wasn't 
paying attention to cousin Bill at the same time. At least Apple are 
sensible enough not to bear a grudge; Microsoft would rather grind firms 
out of existence than find ways of working with them to mutual benefit, 
and would do it by stealing, lying and cheating whilst pretending to be 
their friend.

I don't think the ][ range was hard done by. Whilst it's a shame that 
Mac development took precedence at Job's insistence, they still did a 
better job of bridging the gap than anyone else, and still produced 
their 1970s 'line' up to the 1990s. I dare say that if the Apple IIgs 
had been developed, we'd have much the same machines we do now - GS/OS, 
ProDOS, and the Macintosh, share common roots.

Of course, I could just complain that Apple dropped the Apple ///, and 
it was Insanely Great, and why did they kill such a superior platform ;)

Richard
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