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The products (both hardware and software) were also struggling. My first laptop, a PowerBook 5300c had terrible production / build problems. I can’t remember wh
by alsetmusic 2y ago
The products (both hardware and software) were also struggling. My first laptop, a PowerBook 5300c had terrible production / build problems. I can’t remember what they were, but even though I quite liked mine, it was a bad computer. And Copeland, the next-gen OS that would be on par with WinNT kept getting delayed and never shipped.
Until Apple bought NeXT’s tech and talent, it was very bleak. I still loved my Mac, don’t get me wrong. It was clearly “better,” (I’ll never understand how our antialiased text didn’t make that obvious), but it was also dying. Getting rid of John Sculley and letting Steve Jobs micromanage everything and make unpopular cuts was a miracle save.