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To: Randy Tidd who wrote (11800)4/18/1998 6:55:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 213176
 
True, he is a blanket over all x86 for sure. He does cast a large shadow on Apple as he makes the critical business apps. Fortunately the Audio/Video aps are from other faithful maccers.
My intent by saying narrow was meant to imply zero hardware influence.
So any hardware at all can be made and he is not consulted, nor does he care. The few mice and keyboards and joysticks are minimal in the whole market. Intel and MSFT do consult to make sure they do not use/call unrunnables or slow runnables to keep things clipping along.

In retrospect Apple should have bought Sun, they rightly refused IBM and made an error with Gates' suggestions. It would be a different scene now if Apple had gone to a limited open market. Kept OS sales and added ROM(firmware) sales as exclusively Apples business. The ROMs would sell for different prices as they were for different CPUs and speeds. That way a proportional money flow to Apple would ensue. It could be fine tuned by upping/reducing ROM costs to have some control. The market would th have 2 major players, Apple and Wintel. Who knows how they would suze up, but Apple would be bigger than iy is now and make more money and have more share.

I will look for the book, thanks for the reference.

Bill
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