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Well, Apple's core OS was severely lacking, and they did need to make a major switch to really start turning things around. Unfortunately, the analogous thing t
by mlinsey 16y ago
Well, Apple's core OS was severely lacking, and they did need to make a major switch to really start turning things around. Unfortunately, the analogous thing to what Apple did would have been to acquire Palm and use its underlying architecture for a new product that was still called RIM OS (and hope that the CEO of Palm was some genius visionary that could run your company instead of you, I guess?)
- protomyth 16y agoBlackberry bought QNX which gives them a pretty sweet base. It doesn't seem like the CEO of Palm was too effective despite his pedigree. I don't know who you would have to buy to get a Steve Jobs.
- rbanffy 16y agoThe difference is that NeXT acquired Apple (for a negative amount of money, that is) and provided them with an OS they could control. Apple adopting an OS Microsoft controlled was a Really Stupid Idea, much like Blackberry adopting an OS Google controls is now. The only meaningful difference is that Google is not a direct competitor while Microsoft was (in association with every PC maker)