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I believe Microsoft had a hand in many such downfalls -- HP's WebOS tablet and Gateway's Amiga, for instance. Ironically Microsoft also saved Apple b/c the Gov
by transfire 5y ago
I believe Microsoft had a hand in many such downfalls -- HP's WebOS tablet and Gateway's Amiga, for instance.
Ironically Microsoft also saved Apple b/c the Government was breathing down their neck with Antitrust litigation at the time.
- cable2600 5y agoApple and Microsoft settled their GUI lawsuit of Mac vs. Windows with the investment of non-voting stock from Microsoft and the license of the Mac GUI by Microsoft. The Amiga had bad management that tried to milk the same cow instead of innovate a new chipset to compete with everyone else. It seems like there is a curse on the Amiga for its companies.
- protomyth 5y agoJay Miner dying in 94 didn't help.
- cable2600 5y agoTrue but they had the schematics of Jay Miner's chips. Apple Mac and Windows PC passed Amiga sound and video standards and a new chipset was needed to compete with them. In fact they were working on a new chipset when Commodore went bankrupt. Had they started earlier on it, it might have saved the company, that and the Commodore 65.
- schmorptron 5y agoDamn, early personal computer history always sounds so wild west-like and full of anticompetitive behaviour by microsoft. Crazy to think that apple were the good guys at some point.