jarroyo wrote:
Lets be honest, starting an OS from scratch is not an easy thing.
There is a plethora of OSes out there that are far superior and further established, but little known. A unix clone would simply not suffice, and was done already by Apple.
A company like AInc can simply re-brand one of these as their own, and focus on software / features to add value and set itself apart from the rest.
Apple did what I am predicting A Inc will do if they want to keep things afloat. Mac OS X is Jobs old Next Step OS company that he created after he left Apple. When he returned to Apple he bought is own company, dressed up the Pig and called it Tiger..:-)
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, but we can beat them with their own tactic. Jobs probably did it to pay himself, A Inc could do it to leap frog everyone.
Just for the record, Jobs didn't BUY his own company when he returned. He returned because Apple, under Gil Amelio, bought NeXT and the employees to go with it. Gil being the guy with the famous quote
"Apple was a ship with the hole in the bottom, and my job was to point it in the right direction"
I think Gil was Apple's Bill! lol :whack:
