Apple profitability/Multi-platform authoring
Dave,
>Given that Apple was profitable this past quarter, do you think that Apple must go deep in the red again before it is sold? Is this profitability likely to be short term?<
AAPL turned a small profit this past quarter. Mnagement has publicly stated that, while this current quarter may show a loss, they expect AAPL to return to *sustained* profitability by the quarter thereafter.
Of interest, I copied (couldn't find an easy way to bookmark it) a MacWorld post about OpenStep.
>It's clear that lately there has been an exodus of software developers from the Mac platform. Software titles first appear on Windows then months later, if ever, on the Macintosh. In my opinion, there is little Apple can offer on Apple hardware to reverse this trend - newer, better kernel or none. It needs a different approach to stem this tide.
This is what NeXT's Openstep represents.OpenStep compliant code compiles without modification under NT. If you intend to write to both platforms anyway, then with OpenStep you can maintain one source tree rather than two. *That's* compelling.
And even if you don't intend to write to both platforms, OpenStep tools will help you write commercial grade NT applications far more quickly than you could with native tools. When time-to-market is everything, *this is compelling too*.
And once you have that OpenStep application, why not market it in Mac-space?<
IMO, I think MSFT will wind up supporting -- or even licensing
OpenStep. For defensive reasons to preclude a new technology from exploiting the faults of NT (*after* some big hardware maker, tired paying MSFT their customary skim, gets off its hind legs and licenses it first.) -- as well as to appease the Justice Department.
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