| Project File Conversion [message #93885] |
Sat, 22 December 2007 13:42  |
Dave Richardson
Messages: 12 Registered: December 2007
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deed Apple couldn't stand the weather of competition in their
market, that's what they should've changed. Jacking the price way up after
getting an industry dependant doesn't seem all that ethical to me. Just
cutting them off at the neck is definitely not when considering they already
had a deal.
> Apple did not pull the licensing. The cloners could still
> bui
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| Re: Project File Conversion [message #93913 is a reply to message #93893] |
Sun, 23 December 2007 07:18  |
Dave Richardson
Messages: 12 Registered: December 2007
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>was what Apple did to the cloners that drove me into the<BR>> ever =
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>arms of Redmond. I couldn't afford Apple hardware, but I could<BR>> =
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>Power 603e machine that was my first experience with computer =
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>Less than a year after that Apple shut down the cloners and I realized,=20
>'Hey,<BR>> these are greedy corporate bastards just like Microsoft. =
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>Windows hardware<BR>> is cheap and I can build my own.' Which lead me =
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>400 Mhz Celeron + Paris,<BR>> and the rest is (grim, money losing, =
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>publishing) history. <BR>> <BR>> Your story is one version. =
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>that Power was a smart, talented, agile<BR>> hardware vendor who was =
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>the daylights out of Apple because they were<BR>> everything Apple =
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>since ceased to be--entrepreneurial and customer<BR>> oriented. =
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><BR>> TCB<BR>> <BR>> "James McCloskey" <</FONT><A=
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