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In article <43va7q$4qq@news.eecs.umich.edu>, chyang@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Chung-Hsiung Yang) writes:
> In article <DEttoL.GL7@rp.CSIRO.AU>,  <pevans@galah> wrote:
> >Is Intel in trouble?
> 
> 	Frankly, I really don't know what Apple management is doing 
> right now.  I am not so sure if they are sincere in opening up the 
> Mac architecture and sacrifice their control to gain more market share.

Indeed. Cloning never hurt IBM. For a long while IBM were the
best supplier of PCs. I would be a lot happier about buying from
Apple if they were the best supplier of Macs instead of the only
one. Apple are gradually making smarter moves - PCI PowerMacs might
help (*if* enough 3rd parties start producing cheap cards); The
Pippin is a good idea (*if* no equivalent intel-based machine appears
in the next year or so) - but the CDROM market, which is poised to
become as big as the record industry, is rapidly running away from
Apple - if Apple were really smart they would freely distribute
the right to clone the Pippin and simply hand out hardware specs,
board layouts, whatever, to any company who cared to produce the
thing. Hell, it's a nice name - they could allow use of the name
Pippin on any machine that complied with their specs. That would
help them win back the CDROM market and hence boost the demand for
full PowerMacs as CDROM development platforms. Also, the authoring
software has to be free, or at least very cheap so that anyone can
start producing CDROMS - creative people rarely have much cash to
spend - and all of that has to happen this year, otherwise Apple
will be marginalized in the market opportunity of the century.

-m.
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