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[Michael O'Brien]

>	I've never been able to figure out the Apple computer company, they
>remind me of the Beta video folks.  Apple could have issued liscenses to
>other companies to make Mac clones, but kept the rights to the operating
>system and cleaned up providing same, as well as making software packages.
>The number of Mac computers would have swelled tremendously, giving the Mac a
>much larger market share, and then perhaps Apple would have been where
>Microsoft is today.  Oh well.  ::shrug::

Apple tried that a couple years ago - almost killed the company by
frittering away one of the few sources of revenue they still had.

Now, there's no doubt that Apple's been mismanaged lately - they wouldn't
have made money selling space heaters to Eskimos. However, they seem to
have done a 180 degree turn in the last year, with their new policies and
hardware like the iMac... lord knows that software companies are signing up
with Apple like never before.

Mikhail

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