time.
> All it resulted in was the Mac clone makers stealing market share from
> Apple.
Hm. Doing marketing for Apple at the time, my feelings are a bit different.
>From my perspective at the time it led to a strong period of revitalization
and growth of the Mac market. Gil Amelio was finally starting the turnaround
of the floundering company, the Mac was finally adopting indexpensive
industry standard components like IDE, developer profits were at an all-time
high, Macworld attendance by both companies and attendees was through the
roof with PowerComputing the darling of the show. And the Mac installed base
grew to about 6%.
Unfortunately, the next generation OS development wasn't going so
swimmingly. And turning a company around takes time, which Amelio didn't
have. So he bought NeXT and Steve the shark stabbed him in the back, killed
clone development, fired the HI department, abandoned the philosophy of the
Mac (which Steve hated from the start) turning it into a pretty shell on top
of BSD, and introduced more proprietary technology back into the Mac
hardware. Developer profits are down, Macworld attendance is abysmal with
talks of scrapping one of the two annual events, and the Mac installed base
is now down around 4%. And Steve calls 40% of the Mac installed base running
OS X a success.
Bush can only dream of having the RDF that Steve posesses.
-Kevin
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