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IIRC, Jean-Louis Gassée named a price that Apple was unwilling to pay. I don't know his motivation for doing that - was it all about the money? Or was it to sti
by chiph 8y ago
IIRC, Jean-Louis Gassée named a price that Apple was unwilling to pay. I don't know his motivation for doing that - was it all about the money? Or was it to stick it to Apple and name a stratospheric price as a way of sending a message?
- tialaramex 8y agoJean-Louis Gassée is an ex-Apple executive. He's why Jobs left Apple. For him the point of Be Inc. was to show Apple they'd been wrong to subsequently get rid of him in 1990. When Apple were looking at BeOS / NeXT what they were really trying to decide was whether to have Jobs or Gassée back. They picked Jobs. After Be, Inc. sank JLG arranged to run Palm's software spin-off. This produced the version of PalmOS that's remarkable because instead of being used more palmtop devices than previous PalmOS versions it was used in none at all, even the Palm hardware company never used it. IMO Gassée would be nobody you've heard of if not for the fact of his being in a position to force Jobs out of Apple. Everything else follows from that.
- rvense 8y agoGassée probably thought his price was fair - and it was less than what Apple paid NeXT to take them over :)