Also, I don’t think most of those were made post factum? I lived through enough of them myself. :·)
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Replying to @mwichary @ShortFormErnie
Some were made by press as it happened :)
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Replying to @benjedwards @mwichary
How about a book of tech industry love triangles? Like tech companies that got burned by a partner?
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Replying to @mwichary @ShortFormErnie
Apple vs. IBM pretty much only happened in Steve Jobs' head and the press. I have asked Apple and IBM vets and they say, huh? We served two diff markets
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Replying to @benjedwards @mwichary
I can see that. Jobs worked better when he had a rival, and it was more beneficial for him to aim at IBM than, say, Commodore.
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Replying to @ShortFormErnie @benjedwards
When I was at Google, it was relatively easy to see Eric Schmidt’s fears of Microsoft from his time at… Sun, right? still driving him.
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I liked, though, that after Jobs left, Apple immediately made the most PC computer they ever made (Mac II), complete with an emulation card and a keyboard that had PC legends. :·)
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(I might be wrong on the “most,” but the contrast with the little original Mac was pretty stark.)
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Replying to @mwichary @benjedwards
The 8-Bit Guy once made a compelling case that Apple should have put its energy into the Apple IIgs rather than the Mac around '86. I wonder what the internal rivalry was like there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4tepFbMso …
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I liked the fictionalized version of it in the good Jobs movie. :·D
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Watched the video. It was interesting. After watching it Apple IIgs (which I am thoroughly unfamiliar with) felt to me more like Apple’s internal “Windows.” But I don’t know how he built from the whole video to the conclusion of the Mac being a mistake.
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Replying to @mwichary @benjedwards
I don't think he was saying the Mac was a mistake so much as that the Mac, as it existed in early 1986, had limited upside compared to the Apple II line, considering the IIgs had so many functional similarities. They slowly starved one market to build another.
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