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> Badly. They very nearly went bankrupt with that model.

Like between 2000 and 2007? They did just fine, just like macOS is perfectly fine now.



Like between 1993 and 2000, only really turning around because Jobs was a hard-nosed businessman.

Also: is macOS "perfectly fine now"? How many people only use it because it's necessary for iOS development?


> only really turning around because Jobs was a hard-nosed businessman.

Exactly, he knew that the success of the platform relied on third party developers (NeXTSTEP was a huge improvement)

> Also: is macOS "perfectly fine now"? How many people only use it because it's necessary for iOS development?

I don't know? Do you? I would bet on around 5%. Although I'm not quite sure what's your point?

> Like between 1993 and 2000,

Which was a relatively short period, compared to their post 2000 succes.




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