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To: Todd Bishop who wrote (36347)	12/10/2000 12:49:59 PM
From: Mike Buckley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

Todd, The MacOS provides an API and supports a number of programming languages. It was open enough for Adobe and Microsoft to create numerous applications from Acrobat and Photoshop to the Office suite. How does that differ from Windows? I think that speaks to the issue that Apple at one time was a dominant chimp in niche markets. In the early days it dominated the education market (though maybe not because of its open architecture as much as because of its marketing plan?) and the market for manipulating video and graphics such as desktop publishing. So there was a certain amount of "openness." However, with the exception of a very small amount of time that came years too late, Apple didn't license its OS to competing hardware manufacturers because it was also in the hardware business, unlike Microsoft. We can come to the conclusion that that was the big limitation of Apple or we can subscribe to Moore's conclusions in Inside the Tornado that it was their only reasonable alternative. --Mike Buckley