Why did Apple choose NeXT instead of Be

[alex_ant]

Re: BeOS is dead

Originally posted by b8rtm8nn
Interesting discussion. But if Be were in use today, although it would be fast, it would not be beautiful. Who would "Aqua-fy" it? Be had a tremendous programming staff, but their finished product had a geeky engineer feel to it.

OpenStep wasn't exactly beautiful either. (Although it was appealing, in a clean and conservative way.) I'm sure Apple would have revamped BeOS's appearance pretty drastically if they had decided to go with it instead of OpenStep.

And if you wondered what Be would eventually look like, just wait for the next few OSX releases, they hired five (I think) Be programmers total over the last two years. Jaguar will already have implementations of meta indexing threaded within apps, possibly as a service, and I honestly believe that by v.11, the file system will be rewritten.

A new filesystem would be a godsend. I believe a new filesystem is in the top 5 on OS X's list of what it needs most. And I really hope one/some of the Be programmers they hired were those responsible for making BeOS so ****ing fast. (That last sentence is not quite English, but sue me)

Alex

 

[Taft]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: NeXT was definitely the best choice.

Originally posted by alex_ant

I guess I don't even see why I'm continuing this thread since we both agree that NeXT was still the better purchase, but... Where are all the flamewars? I looked all around and I can't find any happening. This place is so boring without flamewars. I think I'm going to go and insult someone's mother now.

Cheers,
Alex

It is hard to find flame wars here anymore. We don't seem to get as many militant PC users anymore. No GoCyrus's.

You could always insult my mother. Nothin' like a manufactured flame war. Heh.

Taft

 

[alex_ant]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: NeXT was definitely the best choice.

I would insult your mother, but I find she gives such great head that I don't want to.

 

[Taft]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: NeXT was definitely the best choice.

Originally posted by alex_ant
I would insult your mother, but I find she gives such great head that I don't want to.

Why you no-good, lousy little, rotten....

 

[Sun Baked]

Make no mistake about it BeOS showed a lot of promise. It was an exciting product but lacked completeness and a mature development community. Because of this BeOS was way too expensive at the price they were asking.

Some folk's still think NeXT was way too expensive a purchase for Apple, but Next did offer a complete OS with a large pool of dedicated and knowledgeable programmers - something that was definitely lacking in Be's corner.

Whether it was luck or not, Apple made a truely wise choice.

Think about it this way, if they offered a new Amiga and BeOS box for Christmas this year, which one would you buy?

 

[Spock]

Be did not have Steve Jobs, Apple gave him a freakin Jet as a welcome home gift. Think about it, Apple started going down hill after Jobs left. Who could get the crowds going like Steve???

 

[barkmonster]

A worthless joke to calm down the arguing for a second.

maybe after careful thought, Apple just thought a hybrid of Mac OS and Openstep named OS X was the best OS/2 Be NeXT after 9!

Sorry

I know it's really bad joke, I just could resist.

 

[alex_ant]

Terrible, just terrible.

 

[Beigean]

here's something we haven't touched on yet.

BeOS was PPC only when Apple was considering a buyout, and OpenStep had already been ported to a few architectures including x86. Perhaps Amelio had a *cough* genius idea to go OS-only and x86-only eventually. Rhapsody did have an x86 build distributed to developers alongside the PPC one....

Ha!