Very enjoyable article. Never had a Be box, but used beos a bit around 2000 - when it was free to download. It felt great, shame there were no apps. Maybe if vibe coding was available then, it would have done much better.
Loved the hardware part of the story - I just got a mac studio on sale and after many years of laptops, remembered how much fun it is to have things on a desk, permanently connected. I was cleaning up my vintage hardware, selling some old MBs after all full PCs were gone - had two dual processor pentium pro and pentium II workstations. Connected a USB to SATA/IDE/floppy connector, went through all old HDDs before recycling them - was such a joy to have desk space, not just my portable do-it-all.
Anyway, computers should be fun and this story definitely brings that across. Thank you!
While I would have rather seen a future where OS X is BeOS based, another desktop platform having C++ as key language, not being another UNIX clone, the reality is that without the reverse acquision of NeXT and Steve Jobs for the ride, leading to the iPod and iMac G3, Apple would have crashed really hard with what was left on the bank account.
Very enjoyable article. Never had a Be box, but used beos a bit around 2000 - when it was free to download. It felt great, shame there were no apps. Maybe if vibe coding was available then, it would have done much better. Loved the hardware part of the story - I just got a mac studio on sale and after many years of laptops, remembered how much fun it is to have things on a desk, permanently connected. I was cleaning up my vintage hardware, selling some old MBs after all full PCs were gone - had two dual processor pentium pro and pentium II workstations. Connected a USB to SATA/IDE/floppy connector, went through all old HDDs before recycling them - was such a joy to have desk space, not just my portable do-it-all.
Anyway, computers should be fun and this story definitely brings that across. Thank you!
While I would have rather seen a future where OS X is BeOS based, another desktop platform having C++ as key language, not being another UNIX clone, the reality is that without the reverse acquision of NeXT and Steve Jobs for the ride, leading to the iPod and iMac G3, Apple would have crashed really hard with what was left on the bank account.