Gassee really overplayed his hand. Had he been more reasonable, Apple would have acquired Be Inc and based their next generation OS on BeOS. I had a similar f

Gassee really overplayed his hand. Had he been more reasonable, Apple would have acquired Be Inc and based their next generation OS on BeOS. I had a similar feeling when I tried Rhapsody DR1. Yeah, it was kind of cool and had potential but Be had a real working OS that was just waiting for that Apple polish. In the end, Jobs and his vision were probably better for the long term health of Apple but at the time, I too thought that Apple was making a mistake. I still like to muse about what could have been.