Re:Haiku Activity and Contract Report, October 2023
by sillywalk on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:06PM
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Doubtful. I'm a BeOS fan, and used BeOS Pro v5 as a daily driver around 2000. Even Jean-Louis Gassée thinks (in hindsight) it would've been a bad idea [0].
If Apple had bought Be instead of NeXT, they would've have gotten Steve Jobs, who (arguably) saved Apple from bankrupcy, plus i{Mac,Pod,Phone}
At the time (1995-96?) BeOS was a (cool) tech demo, but wasn't a viable product. It had no developers and no apps. NeXT was mature. BeOS also didn't have critical things like - the ability to print, colour management, multi-user support, etc.. Apple could've added these to BeOS, but...
If Apple had bought Be instead of NeXT, they would've have gotten Steve Jobs, who (arguably) saved Apple from bankrupcy, plus i{Mac,Pod,Phone}
At the time (1995-96?) BeOS was a (cool) tech demo, but wasn't a viable product. It had no developers and no apps. NeXT was mature. BeOS also didn't have critical things like - the ability to print, colour management, multi-user support, etc.. Apple could've added these to BeOS, but...
[0] https://9to5mac.com/2011/11/11/gassee-thank-god-apple-chose-...