The Forgotten Failure of Apple's PowerTalk

DECS writes "The series of articles Why Apple Will Change TV compared how Apple is poised for success in areas where Microsoft is currently failing. But circumstances are subject to change! Just over a decade ago, Apple began facing serious legacy problems with its platform, with many parallels to today's Microsoft. Examining Apple's dramatic fall provides a series of notable platform lessons that no company should ignore. A look back at the forgotten failure of Apple's PowerTalk: Apple vs. Microsoft in the Enterprise"

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Your TV tuner is built into your digital cable box

[tepples]

And now apple wants to take over the living room by shipping macs without a TV tuner standard.

Digital cable tuners are supposed to include a FireWire output. All Macintosh computers have FireWire inputs. So if you're a subscriber, you should already have an appropriate tuner. Or are you talking about over-the-air?

We forgot also OpenDoc

[VDM]

Another Apple project quickly forgotten was OpenDoc, which was something like OLE for Microsoft. With OpenDoc, at least the Cyberdog browser was developed (1996-97), together with object embedding capabilities on other software. It lasted just a bit.

Enjoy the articles but take them for what they are

[rubeus]

Daniel Eran writes a lot of pro-mac articles which leads one to believe that you can't really take any of his opinions on Apple with much weight. The articles are really great to read if you are an Apple fan but, otherwise I can see how they might come off a little bit overly infatuated with Apple. If he could use more facts and cite support then I'd find them a little more insightful, as it is, they remind me of those persuasive writing assignments from English class, except all with an pro-Apple slant. Seriously though, read one or two the articles and see if you don't get the same feeling.

Re:Your TV tuner is built into your digital cable

[djrogers]

I don't think Firewire is actually that common, and I'm not sure where Tepples gets the "supposed to have" requirement from.

He waas talking about CABLE boxes, not sat boxes. Cable cos are actually regulated into providing a working FW port in the US at the moment, but sat companies have no such requirements.