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Re:What's really wrong with BlackBerry by gnufreex on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:22AM (#1996701)
About Apple killing classic MacOS, it was really kill or be killed. They did it years too late, IMHO.
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Re:What's really wrong with BlackBerry by philwelch on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:59AM (#1997334)
They had been trying continuously since the late 1980's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_(operating_system)

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Re:What's really wrong with BlackBerry by isani on Monday December 13, 2010 @06:49AM (#2000136)
You could add Newton OS to that list. It was an attempt to do what iOS achieved: a move out of the Mac into mobile devices. Apple initially planned to implement a large number of mobile form factors based on Newton.
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Re:What's really wrong with BlackBerry by gnufreex on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @12:52AM (#2007209)
They also fumbled with MkLinux and BeOS, IIRC.
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