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   From: jabailo@texeme.com   
      
   Afrosheenix wrote:   
      
   >  Fact 1. While OSX was still in the works, when Jobs was trying to   
   > figure out how to blend old code with the NEXT architecture, Apple   
      
   You mean sell off his old assets to Apple.   
      
   > developed twin systems. Remember Blue Box/Yellow Box/Red Box? Yeah. One   
   > of those ran natively on x86 hardware.   
   >   
   >  Fact 2. Apple, at one time, had every intention of shipping Rhapsody   
   > for x86. Why they didn't is anyone's guess, maybe had something to do   
      
   Cool, so I could listen to Sheryl Crow on OSX!   
      
   > with the company nearly tanking before the iMac's debut and the return   
   > of Insanely Great Steve. (Which Steve is up to you :) May have had   
   > something to do with the fact that Apple makes alot of it's money from   
   > hardware sales, and can't possibly compete with 'cloners'. Look what   
   > happened when they temporarily opened themselves up to cloning in the   
   > 90's. OUCH.   
      
   Apple is now the world's 2nd largest Pump n' Dump scheme ( right behind   
   Google).   They've already siphoned off 25 percent of people's mutual   
   fund monies by going from $44 to $35...will they go for 50 percent?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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