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- > Questions:
- > 1. Is Apple a hardware company or Operating System company ???
- > 2. Why should Apple support Executor and promote sales of x86 PCs. ??
- > 3. What financial benefits will Apple receive by supporting Executor ??
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- Answers:
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- 1. In its entire history, Apple has made only two products that have been
- resounding popular successes: the Apple ][, and the MacOS operating
- system. The ONLY reason people buy Macintosh computers is to run MacOS.
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- 2 and 3. The certain way to kill MacOS and Macintosh is to allow
- developers to slip over to Windows and stop writing for Mac. Right now,
- all the financial inducements (not to mention social pressure, development
- tools, and rational future vision) are lopsided in favor of Windows, as
- pained as I am to say that. Isn't it clear what Executor really could
- mean for Apple? Executor allows a developer to stay loyal to Mac, work
- with the Mac APIs, and still be able to sell into the lucrative Windows
- market!
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- Kevin Killion kevin@shsmedia.com
- Stone House Systems, Inc. http://www.mcs.net/~shs/
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