>> I remember that all together too well. It was a farce for Apple at the
>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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