Business Model Unchanged

Subject:		Business Model Unchanged
Date:		2005-10-01 21:42:59
From:		hudlee

Well apple isn't changing their fundamental business model yet. That would require selling Mac OS X so it ran on any pc and dropping the hardware biz. While I hope they do this eventually (or are forced too) it certanly doesn't appear to be the current plan. "I have to wonder if perhaps universal binaries weren't at least a twinkle in Steve's eye back then." I'd say they where alot more than that in 2000. I'm starting to feel old here and I'm only 21. Anybody remember the Mac OS 68k to PowerPC transition which used fat binaries containing versions of software for both 68k and PowerPC? Are these different from universal binaries somehow?

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Business Model Unchanged
2005-10-02 14:55:25 Matthew Russell | [Reply | View]

Given that Steve has been rumored to have had the springs in the PowerBook fine tuned so that the latch closes and sounds with just the right "catch", that he had some building for NeXT painted with varying shades of gray multiple times till they got it "just right", and that he was dogmatic on getting the right angles on the old NeXT cubes perfect, I just don't see them ever selling OS X for 3rd party hardware...but that's just my humble opinion.

Heck, I thank the man just about every time I sit back and ponder what beautiful hardware we really do have compared to the stuff you see other vendors selling. We might pay a premium, but we also get what we pay for.

RE: Mac OS 68k to PowerPC transition -- that was well before I my conversion, but based on the things I've read and the people I've talked to off line since I wrote this post, I think you're right: fat binaries definitely have existed at least since the days of NeXT. I guess it's sort of irrelevant if they existed before that time or not, although it would be interesting to know definitively one way or the other.

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