Why Apple Failed in the 90s

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday October 21, 2006 @11:24PM from the no-ipod dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With news of amazing sales figures for both Mac hardware and the iPod, the future for Apple looks bright. But it wasn't always that way. The 90s were a bad time for the company, and Roughlydrafted.com has a look at Apple's failures of the previous decade." From the article: "During the development of Mac OS X, Apple polished the existing classic Mac OS, and salvaged what it could of Copland developments. Apple modernized its existing Mac APIs into Carbon, which would run software in Mac OS 9, and later allow it to run natively in Mac OS X. Despite fixing the obvious flaws in Apple's operating system offering, Mac OS X did not in itself solve Apple's problem. The company now only had an improved platform that nobody had any reason to buy. The real solution to Apple's problem was stumbled onto by a fortunate accident. "

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If Apple had just sold an OS with any Computer by ac7xc · 2006-10-22 01:40 · Score: 0, Redundant

Microsoft would be a another failed Software company, but by tying their OS to only their equipment they squandered their ability to be the number one software company in the world. If tomorrow they made their OS X available to run on any Intel type processors they would take 50% of the computer market in one year. Prove me wrong Apple, try it.