9 Dec
2007
9 Dec
'07
1:49 p.m.
On 9 Dec 2007 at 13:52, Richard wrote:
Actually, its a glimpse of where Apple went wrong.
The creative force
behind BeOS was at Apple and couldn't get anyone at Apple interested
in BeOS-like directions, so he went to form his own company. When the
Be computer as a piece of hardware didn't pan out and the OS was the
remaining IP of the company that had any promise of a future, Apple
still wasn't interested.
There was an article in, I think, "Nuts and Volts" about Gassee and
his BeBox and BeOS. It looked very innovative with a lot of good
thought behind it--and much too late to make any kind of a splash.
It seems that Apple is getting closer to MICROS~1 every day. I
powered up my old G3 with Panther installed the other day and learned
that there was something like 59MB in security updates waiting for me
to install. I can't imagine how a user with slow modem access deals
with this kind of thing. And the US is full of people with modem as
their only available internet access--and not at anywhere near 56K.
A friend upgraded to Leopard from Tiger on his G4 and lost every bit
of his saved email. And Apple is now flogging the new Macs as great
Windoze machines. Good times.
Cheers,
Chuck