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Gassée: still bitter after all these years.
by zipop 14y ago
Gassée: still bitter after all these years.
- cygwin98 14y agoI always wonder though what if Jean-Louis Gassée and his BeOS won the deal (instead of Jobs and NeXT) in late 90's, what kind of Apple computer would have become? No doubt he is very capable, though I wouldn't bet on him myself.
- michaelpinto 14y agoHe's a mixed bag in terms of track record: You've got the color Mac II which was nothing short of amazing (I know because I purchased a Mac IIcx) and yet you have the disaster known as the Mac Luggable which was terrible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Portable
- MaysonL 14y agoSuppose that instead Microsoft had ended up buying NeXT...
- fusiongyro 14y agoOPENSTEP Enterprise ran on Windows NT. It's an interesting thought experiment.
- philwelch 14y agoI don't think Apple would still exist if they bought Be instead of NeXT.
- fusiongyro 14y agoI think this is a very interesting question. My impression of NeXT is that they nearly priced themselves out of their own market. I am not sure they would have survived without being bought by Apple. Beyond that anything could be speculated. Maybe he would have abandoned computing and gone straight for media, what with Pixar's success.