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| Apple vs. DRI: the other look-and-feel lawsuit |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-30 17:43:01 |
| We all know about Apple's look-and-feel lawsuit against Microsoft over Windows 2.0, but this wasn't the only look-and-feel lawsuit Apple filed during those years. Digital Research, Inc., the company behind GEM, also found itself on the pointy end of Apple's needle. Unlike the lawsuit against Microsoft, though, Apple managed to 'win' the one against DRI. |
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| That could explain a lot |
| By oper on 2012-08-30 20:24:11 |
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> The cool thing is that GEM had several advantages over the Macintosh That could explain a lot of what happened later. |
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| Is it just me... |
| By bowkota on 2012-08-30 21:16:35 |
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It feels like most of the articles written by the author have a certain negative/ironic/sarcastic/j udgemental character towards a particular company. We're always hearing 'one side of the story'. It's certainly ironic considering how this particular person is very judgemental of other individuals who he claims are doing the exact same thing. You're not doing your writing justice; there's always good points in your articles but right now, most of it looks like trolling. Maybe I'm paranoid, maybe it's just me. |
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| RE: dear Thom |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-30 21:30:05 |
| Facts are facts. Come up with counter-arguments, or accept that your view might not be accurate. |
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| More irony (though more loosely related) |
| By zima on 2012-08-30 21:31:10 |
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A few years later, MacOS 7 was apparently ported to the PC... where that "superior" (or so the narrative goes - oh, and a base for Macintosh OS until 9) OS ran on top of DOS, just like Win 3.x or GEM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sta... Icing on the cake: the CEO under which the costly m68k -> PowerPC migration happened, admitted that this was a mistake, that Apple should have went with Intel back then already... http://macworld.co.uk/news/index... (but it being a mistake seemingly didn't stop the PR machine, the cult, like with the ridiculous campaign of "PowerPC 'supercomputer on a chip' G4" based on a few hand-picked SIMD benchmarks) PS. And in the general spirit of pointing out ~contemporary tech from the past - beside Newton and Tandy Zoomer there was also... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ams... > In 1993 [...] Amstrad released the PenPad, a PDA similar to the Apple Newton, and released only weeks before it. It was a commercial failure, and had several technical and usability problems. It lacked most features that the Apple Newton included, but had a lower price at $450. While seemingly a quite horrible device (links in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen... ) ...that's beside the point - all of those very early models were more or less horrible, anyway (starting with the basic idea of handwriting recognition - can you read reliably even your own handwriting, NVM from other people?) Edited 2012-08-30 21:42 UTC |
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| Comment by Stephen! |
| By Stephen! on 2012-08-30 21:42:29 |
| Did Apple actually have more market share than the Amiga, at the height of it's popularity? |
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| RE[2]: dear Thom |
| By helix on 2012-08-30 21:53:06 |
| I have to agree; it's not about disputing facts. I'm sure Apple ( as well as many other companies) has used shady legal tactics to disrupt or eliminate competition. But the obvious slant that this site has taken is a little too much for me. I used to enjoy reading about operating systems and other related stories, but when nearly every other story is about Apple and how evil they are, I guess it's time to go. I'm not an Apple fan, but this is too much. |
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| RE: Comment by Stephen! |
| By zima on 2012-08-30 22:14:18 |
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Yes. http://arstechnica.com/features/... (and 6 & 7; also, keep in mind that most of those were "toy" Amigas - perhaps irrelevant for end users, but certainly relevant WRT company outlook) I guess it was even quite clear to some already back then that Amiga, with its very tightly coupled hardware and software, was essentially stuck at the 500 generation. Edited 2012-08-30 22:15 UTC |
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| RE[2]: dear Thom |
| By henderson101 on 2012-08-30 22:19:55 |
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Facts are never facts, silly old chap. Wars are won by being the power that crushes all others in a conflict. History is written by the victors. But that's not anything to do with what I said. You know what I meant, and if you didn't take it on board, I pity you. Serious suggestion, take a break and chill. You're trashing your credibility and proving to be a very sore loser. |
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| RE: More irony (though more loosely related) |
| By henderson101 on 2012-08-30 22:28:47 |
| Oh dear. DRDOS is not MSDOS/PCDOS, you know that, right? DRDOS was way, way more advanced. Did you actually even read more than "system 7.1" and DOS? Most of the capabilities listed in that article didn't come to DOS till Windows 95. |
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| RE[3]: dear Thom |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-30 22:32:29 |
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OSNews is, and always will be, going with a flow - a flow determined by the interests of the person doing 99.9% of the news. Back when Eugenia did her thing, she had a flow too. A few months with a focus on this, then a few months a focus on that. The same applies to me. Right now, my focus is on the fact that I'm seeing history being rewritten before my very eyes, and I want to do something to counter that. That's my prerogative as the person doing 99.9% of the work here. I will not hide or ignore facts that are inconvenient to you. I will not go out of my way to treat Apple fans any differently from any other fans. Much like how Windows 8 and Metro get their fair share of criticism from me, or Android's severe upgrade mess, I will not tone those down because I might step on a few toes. We're all adults here. If I'm ostensibly lying or presenting false information - point it out and we all learn. If you feel my opinion is wrong, argue your case - much like I have to do every day here in the comments sections. You don't see me run away from that either. And, as always, feel free to write an article in case you want more prominence than a comment can give you. We point this possibility out time and time again, but somehow, people like you never take us up on it. That you never take me up on the article offer, and the fact that you're failing to come up with arguments and instead just shout BIAS! makes it very clear to me I argued my case pretty damn well with this article. |
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