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I was one of the people who worked at Be, right up to the very end, when the company went out of business, got absorbed into Palm, and I was laid off. I remembe
by allenbrunson 9y ago
I was one of the people who worked at Be, right up to the very end, when the company went out of business, got absorbed into Palm, and I was laid off. I remember all this the same way you do.
... Except that I don't think there is anything they could have done that would have made them successful, at that point in time, other than possibly not playing hardball when Apple came calling. Microsoft's stranglehold on the industry was just too great.
- qubex 9y agoI just wanted to let you know that to this very day I mourn the loss of Be Inc and BeOS. Whatever work you did there I’d like you to know (that for me at least) it was worth it because it left an enduring impression on those of us that had the privilege to use the system.
- allenbrunson 9y agoUnfortunately, I didn't do much to move BeOS further down the field. By the time I got there, the company had given up on BeOS as a standalone consumer product and was squarely focused on BeIA, specifically the Sony eVilla. (you can google it for the whole sad, sordid tale, if you dare.) My contribution to the ecosystem, if in fact I ever made one, was to write what I thought of as the best USENET newsreader available on the platform. http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ http://www.platinumball.net/pineapple/news/beos/ I definitely would still be using BeOS today, as my day-to-day OS, if that were remotely possible, in this day and age.
- qubex 9y agoI remember using that. I think I even registered.