[opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

  • From: James Watt <jwatt@xxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:04:28 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of John Shutt
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 4:39 PM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips
> 
> I never heard of Jean-Louis before so I googled him.  Here is a 1996
> Wired!
> magazine story about Gassee.
BeOS was a very nice OS.  Incredibly fast (I had 9 video windows running at
speed simultaneously) on a P133 (it was a few years ago), and very nice to
use.  Too bad there were no apps for it (just those written by Be) and it
wasn't compatible with anything.  Like Apple, Be seemed to believe that a
good product sells itself with little or no help.  They were on something
like version 4.2 before I even heard of them, and I was working in the
industry at the time.  

IIRC, Jean-Louis Gassee was a VP at Apple before starting Be.  Explains why
Be never went anywhere and why Apple is where it is.  

James.

> 
> <http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.05/gassee.html?topic=&topic_set=>
> 
> The story is mostly about Gassee's launch of his BeBox computer. My
> favorite
> quote:
> 
> "Many things we've done in our company we are doing by studying Amiga," he
> adds. "That company sold 4 1/2 million units and at one point had $800
> million in annual revenues." Gassée goes so far as to say his product is a
> "spiritual descendant" of Amiga.
> 
> Apparently he succeeded in emulating Amiga.
> 
> John
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Miller" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> > DITTO!!
> >
> > John Golitsis wrote:
> >
> >>Indeed!
> >>
> >>On 10-Jun-05, at 2:29 PM, John Willkie wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Think of the alternative.  If apple had taken on the Jean-Louis Gasse
> >>>project the many times they rejected it over the last decade, they
> >>>could now
> >>>be ahead of this curve.
> 
> 
> 
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