Tag: BeOS

The best $400 million Apple, or any other company, ever spent

Wednesday, March 24, 2021 1:10 pm24 Comments

In the late 1990s, Apple was in big trouble. Thankfully, Apple’s CEO Gil Amelio made the best business decision he’s ever made…

Haiku, the open-source execution of BeOS, is beautiful but buggy

Monday, July 3, 2017 1:58 pmMonday, July 3, 201719 Comments

BeOS was intended to compete with the “classic” Apple MacOS and with Microsoft Windows…

The operating system fountain of youth: Apple’s iOS

Monday, December 5, 2016 10:32 amMonday, December 5, 20163 Comments

Operating Systems are like the Tax Code…

This OS nearly made Apple an entirely different company

Friday, May 29, 2015 4:29 pmFriday, May 29, 201520 Comments

Steve Jobs returned to Apple after a 12-year absence when it acquired NeXT…

Be, Inc.’s 1998 demo video

Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:01 pm47 Comments

While Windows users were barely getting by with Windows 98…

Jean-Louis Gassée: Thank God Apple chose Steve Jobs’s NeXT over my BeOS

Friday, November 11, 2011 10:51 amFriday, November 11, 201126 Comments

Jean-Louis Gassée, Apple’s former head of Macintosh product development…