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Inspirations and ramblings - this is a place for obsessing over the limitations of the iPhones camera and what comes out of that and other musings and retumbls.

permalink rickwebb:

Year created: 1991 Company: Be Inc. What happened? Apple offered to buy Be Inc for $125 million in 1995, but CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $200 million. Apple bought Steve Jobs’s NeXT instead, and Palm acquired the company’s assets for $11 million in 2001. (via Forgotten Operating Systems (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG))
Thank you, Jean-Louis Gassée for being a greedy SOB so Apple could go buy Next and we could all get OS X instead of having to use Be. God. Remember Be? When you tried it? That one time? For five seconds?

rickwebb:

Year created: 1991 Company: Be Inc. What happened? Apple offered to buy Be Inc for $125 million in 1995, but CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $200 million. Apple bought Steve Jobs’s NeXT instead, and Palm acquired the company’s assets for $11 million in 2001. (via Forgotten Operating Systems (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG))
Thank you, Jean-Louis Gassée for being a greedy SOB so Apple could go buy Next and we could all get OS X instead of having to use Be. God. Remember Be? When you tried it? That one time? For five seconds?

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