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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 15:18:07 JST LS
   I really wonder where apple would be today if they had bought Be instead of NeXT.
   • Sir Funk 🇦🇺 (sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 17:45:03 JST Sir Funk 🇦🇺

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     @lain they’d be a fond memory, nothing more.

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     @lain I think Palm tells us everything we need to know about that scenario.
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     @lain Like if we're talking about pure technology Apple already had that many times over acquisition or not, but even if Jean-Louis Gassee was certainly a decisive figurehead in his own right, I don't think anyone less than 90s-era Jobs could have decisively put an end to the infighting and politicking within Apple and forced them to actually ship real products. Palm ended up having similar issues after the Be acquisition with their own advanced next-gen OS (Garnet) going nowhere while they had to limp along and be a caretaker for their increasingly frail original platform, before they saw the writing on the wall, abandoned everything, and just made something new based on Linux instead.
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   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 17:47:21 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     • Terry Hendrix II 🏹
     @thendrix @lain :neocat_thonk: tech-wise i suppose they were not that far from one another. both used heavy message passing systems--Be used clean C++ and NeXT used Obj-C, but BeMessage is basically just wrapping a message send and those were a staple of the interfaces.
     
     Though they wouldn't have reacquired Steve Jobs that way.
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   • Terry Hendrix II 🏹 (thendrix@social.hendrixgames.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 17:47:22 JST Terry Hendrix II 🏹

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     A division of MSFT.