Path: ...!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:55:34 +0000 Subject: Re: In 1997, Apple was just 90 days away from bankruptcy From: danmin@danminart-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Danart) Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: newsSync 675732494 References: Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:55:34 +0000 Lines: 51 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-46u+UzFYotH8iOnty6KMNsIuFQki9uESxSXbxTOp+LhZpO1dJgU1dY9YgIZClWX1IjL8Z2vj2HbT869!FB/bwsw715ZBNr50IRLJHZ47MDBqydUwrJAgwPp1d+qB7xzcAzSShQinWt3Gi7Igk6c3dcXS/HVi!YQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2769 X-Original-Lines: 1 > JAB wrote: > In 1997, Apple was just 90 days away from bankruptcy before a $150 > million investment from its rival, Bill Gates and Microsoft, saved the > company. Today, Apple is worth over $3 trillion, and is currently the > most valuable company in the world. > > Global Statistics @Globalstats11 Competition is healthy. Gates already knew if Apple went down then it would be him against IBM or even worst AT&T. That is an even worst rival. Apple was ( and still is ) a novelty computer. They look good, rename everything, and is meant for people who knows nothing about computers ( outside of programmers ). OSX is literally OSNext. Next as in Unix ( get the rhyme ). Apple OS literally stopped around OS9 aka OS8. By which is literally a lawsuit for not calling it OS8. OSX is berkly ( licensed BSD ), and literally Unix ( like Linux ). Everything else is just icing. Apple did one thing. Made the idea of purchasing something you can not own. Apple computers and OS series are fudged up. They all are Unix and all can work with any hardware. All they need are the drivers. Computers can be upgraded via sodering iron and programming controllers ( which is literally txt file editing ). Apple makes you work harder for what Intel provides for you easy. Any Windows setup along side any Apple setup of any year and windows would still win. When it was DOS that was another thing all together. ................................ Only thing positive is if your computer scientist and run lab experiments. A good chance the older machines have use for you. This is a response to the post seen at: http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=675184094#675184094