Steve Jobs passed away!

[Kronos]

Guys, get real. Steve didn't invent anything, Steve didn't design anything. They have designers and research department. We did not lose anything.

But Steve was the guy who could see what inventions and what designs needed to be coupled with what marketing to come uo with products pretty much creating their market....

Visionaries don't have to invent anything themselves they just ahve to be "enablers".

[Kronos]

C= was allready planning with non-68k (and non-PPC) CPUs for "Hombre". AFAIR we would have ended up with PA-RISC.

Not sure what that has to do with Apple or Mr. Jobs......

[Kronos]

@Dammy

Thats exactly the problem, Apple would not have been the No1 vendor of MacOS-HW by the end of the century and it's very questionable wether the transition to NextStep (aka OSX) would have worked out.

What if those clone-makers (representing 70% or more of the market) had put their weight behind something like BeOS or a revamped WindowsNT-PPC ?

OSX allmost killed Apple as it were, but under such circumstances....

And OSX is the only thing that made the Mac "sensible" after 2003 or so.

[Kronos]

@tone007

Problem is that once you start comparing with "simplier" PC your comparision becomes unfair.

Their simply is more developing and manufactoring cost involved in an iMac as there is in mATX puter useing offtheshelf components.

Wether you want to pay those extra cost for that extra mile is only significant cos Apple doesn't offer consumer PC in a standard form factor.