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- page0588@sundance.sjsu.edu (Chad Page) wrote:
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- >Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
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- >: My understanding is that they not only license the ROMs, but they also
- >: license much more, too, including ASICs that are in such short supply
- >: that Gateway wasn't able to cut a licensing deal with Apple because
- >: they weren't able to turn out the ASICs quick enough.
- >
- > Ayee. Apple isn't *really* opening up the Mac platform, is it?
- >(as in, it's impossible for anyone else to make a large number of Macs -
- >unless they did something like license ARDI technology or something)
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- My interpretation of the relationship between Apple and it's licencees
- would be like that between Sun and the SPARC cloners (ie. the 3rd parties
- are dependent on the leads for certain critical components). Are you
- thinking that Apple is intentionally limiting supplies to Power, Radius,
- and Daystar, et al?
-
- I think the truth of the matter is that Apple screwed up it's projections,
- resulting in ASIC shortages, resulting in Apple, it's licencees, and it's
- potential licencees not being able to put out the iron. Whether they
- *would* limit supplies given adequate stocks is another matter.
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