I agree with you that part of what makes apple unique is combined development of hardware and software. But I think you are being a little harsh on the mac cloners.
It is true that the cloners did little to increase the MacOS marketshare(note that for a while they did increase the total marketshare a small amount but the media choose to focus on the decrease in apple's share) but this due to apple waiting until 10+ years had passed and windows had already won the war then anything the clones did. And it is true that the clones used apple's motherboard designs but the fact is until apple released a version of the MacOS that would run on CHRP they had to. The cloners ate into Apple's market share not only because they were cheaper but because many times they produced better, faster computers. The clones also introduced several technologies into the mac market. Dual and Quad processesing by Daystar, the first mac with built in 3d hardware was a powercomputing(the powerbase), first mac with a zif for the processer(the umax c series), ps2 ports on the powerbase and Motorola models.
With all that said, I think apple is better off without the clones but I think it is only fair to note their contributions.
PS Powercomputing had the Coolest ads: http://www.powerwatch.com/powerads/sluggo.jpg
With a Apple G4 Cube you'll get a agp slot, built in ethernet, dvd or cdrw all in eight inch cube. I doubt you will hack you self a smaller case than that.
Does anyone know if you can copy and paste or drag and drop between x apps and cocoa and carbons apps? If not is this a feature that will be implemented in the future?
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"If they went open source, they might gain the edge they need to become a serious competitor on the OS market again."
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Him maybe like this http://www.opensource.apple.com/
"eventually they'll release an Linux-Based Mac OS"
Well how bout a BSD based OS
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin
"first they start using standardized video formats,"
Standardized video formats, hmm?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/1
see subject and http://www.pocketexpress.com/Catalog/Product_Pages /spyhunter.shtml
"Or some 8 Ball Deluxe, or some GnR Pinball... "
Guns 'n Roses finally have a pinball game out! Great, I can't wait for some 'November Rain' action with Slash and Axel at my local arcade.
There is no G3 cube. All cubes had a G4
MacInTalk is much, much older than MacOS 8. It dates back all the way to 1984 and the first macs.t ml
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/pt/pt_22.h
This sounds like the old radius rocket for mac. Each rocket was essentiallly a quadra on a nubus card.
http://lowendmac.com/radius/rocket.shtml
Server farm has a whole new meaning.
Seriously am I the only one who read this as Smart Yam?
Two points about mac ports:
1. There are tons of games that are never ported to Mac
2. It is probally easier to port games to mac because of the limited number of hardware configurations to support.
No it's great planning! When the aliens come we just turn those satellites around and fry their green asses :)
An iMac or a Cube(if you can find one).
Canvas 8 came out recently
There is an app for palms(called mirror or something like that) that just shows a completly black screen and allows the lcd to act like a mirror.
I agree with you that part of what makes apple unique is combined development of hardware and software. But I think you are being a little harsh on the mac cloners.
It is true that the cloners did little to increase the MacOS marketshare(note that for a while they did increase the total marketshare a small amount but the media choose to focus on the decrease in apple's share) but this due to apple waiting until 10+ years had passed and windows had already won the war then anything the clones did. And it is true that the clones used apple's motherboard designs but the fact is until apple released a version of the MacOS that would run on CHRP they had to. The cloners ate into Apple's market share not only because they were cheaper but because many times they produced better, faster computers. The clones also introduced several technologies into the mac market. Dual and Quad processesing by Daystar, the first mac with built in 3d hardware was a powercomputing(the powerbase), first mac with a zif for the processer(the umax c series), ps2 ports on the powerbase and Motorola models.
With all that said, I think apple is better off without the clones but I think it is only fair to note their contributions.
PS Powercomputing had the Coolest ads: http://www.powerwatch.com/powerads/sluggo.jpg
just posting cause I fucked up moderating this comment and have to make ammends
I think you will be safe as long as you don't cross the streams.
...ever taken a cold shower? Well multiply that by 15 million times and thats how pissed off Walt's gonna be.
I'm not sure if this is why you got Netscape 8, but under a few browsers (iCab and Opera) you can specify what identity you browser returns.
With a Apple G4 Cube you'll get a agp slot, built in ethernet, dvd or cdrw all in eight inch cube. I doubt you will hack you self a smaller case than that.
WTF? Apple will never open-source anything?
How about Darwin or Quicktime Streaming Server? Or MkLinux. No apple never will open source anything.
The program your thinking about, I think, was called Triumph of the Nerds
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Anyway this book predates that program by about a decade so if anything Triumph of the Nerds is just a rehash of this book.
For what its worth "Pirates of Silicon Valley" was based on this book.
Does anyone know if you can copy and paste or drag and drop between x apps and cocoa and carbons apps? If not is this a feature that will be implemented in the future?