Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Jerry Daniels]

I think it's a mistake for Apple to limit the OS to their boxes. Why 
NOT give Redmond a run for their money and open things up? Apple can 
have the "SONY" quality box.

New opportunities to think different.

-JD

On Jun 6, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Chipp Walters wrote:
>> IMO, if they did offer an Intel OSX for *other* computers, they 
>> *might* be able to give MS (and esp. the much delayed and 
>> underpowered Longhorn) a run for their money.
>
> Yes, that little company in Redmond does rather well without also 
> saddling themselves with manufacturing computers.
>
> Indeed, the best computing value I've ever had relative to other 
> concurrent offerings was my Power Computing box.
>
> <controversialNotion>
> A lot of folks like to point to Apple's failed cloning experiment as 
> an example of why cloning must necessarily fail.  But such a view 
> overlooks that Apple is the only example of such a failure.
>
> I would argue that if Apple had entered cloning with anything more 
> than a half-baked, half-hearted effort (to to mention the iron fist 
> they wielded over cloners) we might once again see a 10% marketshare 
> for an Apple OS.
> </controversialNotion>
>
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>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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