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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (7688)	5/19/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel	Read Replies (2) of 74651

The Pace of Innovation RE: "How come it has taken AAPL so long to get to OS8.1? ..." Good Point: Apple also has definitely been sluggish and ineffectual, but then they only have a 3.8% market share, a tiny budget, and no expectation of dominating the market. They too have a platform monopoly and have been inward looking until recently. Not that it counts for much, but Apple did perk things up a bit by turning itself inside-out and has spent $400 million outside its realm to acquire NEXT and its technology. However, an OS that bills itself as "the computer for the rest of us" is less likely to be viewed as creating public policy problems in a free society. Apparently even Bill Gates does not regard Apple as serious competition. Could Apple have done better? I do not know, but Microsoft certainly could and didn't. HR PS: You should know that I own a G3 Type Mac at home, but use an Intel type PC at work.

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