The Secret Plan of Steve Jobs
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| Steve Jobs was once quoted as saying the following:
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| "If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's
| worth -- and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over.
| Done. Microsoft won a long time ago."
| -- Fortune, Feb. 19, 1996
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| Granted, this was something he said right before Apple brought him back in
| to take over the helm of the company.
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| [...]
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| Rather than hire the rare and expensive talent needed to finish Copland,
| Steve could start with the existing NeXT OS, toss in some open source
| software from UNIX and Linux, slap on an Apple GUI, provide some means of
| OS 9 compatibility, and get to market quickly.
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| [...]
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| All of this costs money, and puts Apple in a bad position to compete
| with companies like Dell, HP, Gateway, and Lenovo, all of whom buy
| Microsoft Windows or Linux off the shelf and drop it onto the hardware they
| manufacture.
|
| [...]
|
| Users who want to continue using OS X can pick up the "free" open
| source version that programmers outside Apple are maintaining (i.e.,
| the Linux model).
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