Mightyone(two?), I note the comment from Tai in there about the potential cessation of clone licensing. If they did that, and Jobs favours cutting clones, that would be the kiss of death for Apple. In this day and age no propreitary system will be able to swim upstream against the entrenched WINTEL monopoly. To join them via a port over could be very slow in coming and in running, and even a fast processor might not make it acceptable, as well as having a 2-4 year sea of bugs and software patches for assorted third party software.
Jobs was a visionary in the pioneer days. they opened the box and then dropped the ball as others ran away from them with the concept as their closed proprietary system collapsed from overheads, hubris, and great margins(that the Co has lived on for many years now in the bank, but reserves are lower now). The last hope for Apple is the open clone scenario I suggested(or some similarly fast off the shelf approach that gives money back to Apple for each clone, and cuts the lawyer overhead with licensing agreements etc.) Someone should ask Tai just how long it took to get an agreement done with Apple?
I have an agreement with Microsoft for Win 95 on my clones that I agree to when I open the package. I just buy Pentiums over the counter and make originals(not clones, as they are far faster and better than IBMs, and are thus not 'clones' or copies of others works.
Bill |
