bundling thoughts

[Sean]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com wrote:

> The thing you're not mentioning about the Adobe/Apple schism in the late
> '80s is the fact that Apple abandoned their 68k CISC chips for Motorolla
> PPCs and refused to develop backward-compatibility for older 68k apps into
> their OS.  Adobe's decision to develop for Windows/x86 was an attempt to
> cut their losses as their competitors (Quark, Corel, Aldus) scrambled to
> beat them to the new Mac platform.  Microsoft learned from Apple's
> mistake, and to this day you can run your old DOS apps from your 286 on
> the latest Windows release.  So it's not that Microsoft paid Adobe to
> cross-develop their products, but rather that Apple dropped the ball and
> didn't use their market share to build loyalty.  They thought they could
> dictate changes to companies that developed for their platform.  Microsoft
> has twisted that so that each such move is leveraged in their favor.  They
> don't give orders to other companies without some sort of
> punishment/reward scenario to tip things in their favor.

M$ is the king of putting themselves in the right position and having
their bases covered with both PR and marketing.

Apple is the King of fsck-ups. They have blown so many great opportunities
even in the last 3 years it is hilarious. I just hope they don't blow
OS X or if they are forced out of business, they release Quartz and aqua
as open source.