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by mhd 1938 days ago
Nothing else ever had the PC. And IBM wasn't too happy that it happened to them, either.
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TheRealDunkirk 1938 days ago
It definitely makes Apple's decision to never allow generics seem wise in retrospect.
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mbreese 1938 days ago
But they did at one point in the late 90’s. I wouldn’t say that was the only reason why they nearly went bankrupt, but it certainly didn’t help.
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TheRealDunkirk 1938 days ago
Yeah, "never" was the wrong word. I forgot about that.
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mhd 1938 days ago
In a way, they themselves started becoming a manufacturer of "IBM compatibles", they just locked their OS to them.

A Jobs-less alternate Apple universe might've been interesting though. He both canned the licensed Apple clones and made OpenStep into the next major MacOS revision. If Copland would've been OS 8 or BeOS as OS X, there could be viable clones, and thus maybe enough critical mass to keep PowerPC alive a bit longer.

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