Apple even created the position of "Evangelist" and sent their evangelist
out to recruit 3rd party software people. If not for Adobe the mac would
have died. You may be right about HW and OS, but this is definitely not true
about SW.

-j



"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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Leon wrote:


"Tim Douglass" wrote in message
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 18:13:39 GMT, "Leon"
wrote:

Jobs wanted everything under Apples control and there was basically no
choice.

Actually I don't think that philosophy started until the Macintosh.
During the Apple II days *everybody* made stuff for the Apple.


The may be true. All I recall is that this was the situation at one
time.

To some extent when the Mac was introduced, but not to the extent that you
claim. There was always third-party software. Further, given the
popularity of the Mac when it first came out, Apple clearly was doing
_something_ right.

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