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Article gone? Well, I'd guess fundamentally it was about tying yourself to the Microsoft sociopath mothership. Intel could have taken Linux by the reigns and

• klodolph 10y ago
  > Intel could have taken Linux by the reigns and made an OSX-equivalent and certainly windows-beating decades ago. I disagree. Hardware companies have a long history of trying and failing to make good software. It's not in their core business, so the company culture and talent pool isn't right. The same is true the other way around, just look at how rough Microsoft's entry into the console market was. On top of that, the "last mile" of usability between the current state of Linux and something that can realistically compete with Windows requires experienced UX designers and an infusion of design knowledge into the software engineering team. This isn't realistic for most companies. Just to be clear, not saying it would have been impossible, but I would bet against it.
  • cowardlydragon 10y ago
    I'd be really interested to know what the team size of the original OSX people was. Granted they were probably all NextSTEPpers that really knew the OSX core inside and out to begin with. But still, Apple at the time had 1/100 the resources of Microsoft and Intel. Intel could have bought BeOS after Apple passed. Think about that: BeOS with real backing.