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What if Apple had bought BeOS? Now that is a major "what if?". For, not only did Apple actually go on to buy NeXT, but in doing so they brought Steve Jobs back
by parenthesis 18y ago
What if Apple had bought BeOS?
Now that is a major "what if?". For, not only did Apple actually go on to buy NeXT, but in doing so they brought Steve Jobs back into the company. I.e. we might have had Mac-BeOS and no Steve Jobs: what would have happened?
- pavlov 18y agoInstead of Steve Jobs, Apple would have acquired Jean-Louis Gassée... But he probably wouldn't have been in a position to take over the CEO job, not to mention being able to replace many of the important executives with those from the acquired company. More fundamentally: Gassée probably wouldn't have been able to reinvent Apple's engineering values and sprawling product lineup the way Jobs did, simply because he had been so heavily involved in the first place in what Apple had become since Jobs's departure. (AFAIK, Gassée was in charge of the infamous Macintosh Portable project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable ... So it's clear that he doesn't have Jobs's nearly infallible design taste for compact computers and lustworthy gadgets :))