Which is why it will fail.

Post #13,419 by addison 10/15/01 4:59:55 PM Reply	Which is why it will fail. Which is too bad. I'd like to see it, personally. But the point is that it takes cash to Apple to run it. I think there might be a market in the x86 world, if it rocks as hard as people say it does. The hardware is slightly secondary - but you're right. Apple's so fixated on selling hardware (second only to screwing over those with memory -not RAM - problems :)) that they'll never port it. Addison
Post #13,476 by tjsinclair 10/15/01 11:34:17 PM Reply	Same thing happened with Be Gassee thought he could sneak a desktop OS (a rocking one, if memory serves me correctly) into Gate's playground. He got creamed. Frankly, at this point any commercial vendor would be nuts to port a desktop OS to x86 hardware. (Linux doesn't count, as it isn't a single commercial entity and falls outside of the usual MS competitive gunsights.) Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits
Post #13,487 by kmself 10/16/01 1:17:04 AM Reply	He didn't get creamed He got a Palm job. /me ducks `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #13,684 by a6l6e6x 10/16/01 9:35:05 PM Reply	Thanks for comic relief. Alex Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
Post #14,485 by orion 10/21/01 9:29:30 PM Reply	Same thing happened with NeXT Remember the Intel version of NeXTStep? Even SCO Unix outsold it. ;) The only X86 OS that has a prayer of beating MS is Linux, after that maybe BSD. But Linux seems to be more popular. P.S. I tried to download the 280M Darwin ISO image but I cannot get a complete download. Apple requires you to register with their "database" so that you comply with their open source license. Isn't this just a way to get a list of "potential" customers? Picking up the pieces of my broken life.*
Post #16,746 by tuberculosis 11/5/01 8:46:54 PM Reply	Re: Reg >Isn't this just a way to get a list of "potential" customers? Nah, they don't do much of anything with the info except send you the weekly developer newsletter email. Just fill it in.
Post #16,958 by orion 11/6/01 4:34:37 PM Reply	At least, not yet but if they do anything more than the ocuasional newsletter, then they are no better than the rest of the companies. *Picking up the pieces of my broken life.*

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