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In a sense, I agree, but I guess I'm applying Apple business practices to Google in my mind. If they create their own operating system, in their own language, t
by buckwild 15y ago
In a sense, I agree, but I guess I'm applying Apple business practices to Google in my mind. If they create their own operating system, in their own language, they have essentially gained a large amount of control. Given that Google is the most popular search engine and many people want to use Google products, it wouldn't be too hard to gain the majority foothold. Google is even making a Chrome notebook!
- rbanffy 15y agoI think it was more luck than anything else. Apple was failing. It had an ancient and crufty OS and needed to find a new OS outside the company because it failed to develop one internally at least twice. They could go with BeOS, NeXT or MkLinux (I run MkLinux on one Mac in my collection). NeXT came with Steve Jobs bundled for free. At that time, Apple leveraged its bets making Java development a first-class citizen. It was not clear whether Objective-C would gain any foothold because it failed to get traction during its NeXT years.