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Re: Apple PowerMac G5



On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:43:36 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > because Apple stopped the clone market
> 
> 	After IBM failed to bring a product to the market...
> 
> 	I mean, it would be much harder to Jobs argue the failure of
> the Mac clone if IBM was there... but why IBM would succeed with the

IBM was there with the LongTrail. They did the design, Tatung and Umax would do
the production. Motorola was there, too.

Steve stopped them. Rumours said it costed Motorola 1 billion, but they didn't
give a kick.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
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