Acquisition

See, the Palm acquisition doesn't make much sense to me at all. It doesn't look like Palm has much of anything to add to what Apple can already do. ...

Sorry guys and girls, I think my new acquisition might be a social recluse... ...

To AdmiralAK I do not know if emulated VMS counts. At least until recently what was left of DEC was coming up with new releases. Our last VAX died about 6 months ago. AIX is (or was) quite proprietary for IBM RS/6000 workstations, most of which actually had POWER processors rather than PowerPC processors. (Almost but not quite the same). I haven't actually logged on in...

and Apple needed something great upon which to build. In January, when the acquisition of NeXT was announced, I was ecstatic. NeXTStep was the perfect basis for Apple's next generation OS. ...

Ça commence presque toujours par le petit poisson rouge qu'on a gagné tout bêtement à la tombola ou ramené de la fête foraine. Que faire de << Bubulle >> qui, de son sac en plastique vous regarde sur le côté? On ne va tout de même pas le jeter! Ça vit un poisson! Allons, il faut lui trouver un bocal... avec un peu de sable ou de gravier dans le fond et une plante verte...

I wouldn't have thought that it would be the best time for an acquisition spree for Apple. The IT revenues are down in general and they are in a development phase of both software and hardware. ...

wmoss: There are all sorts of Fitts law studies that support centering for speed of user access. Do you have links that you can point me to? Because from my (limited) knowledge of Fitt's law, I would think that to opposite is true. If you put a target at an edge of the screen, then it has infinite depth in one direction, making target acquisition much faster (one the...

and the acquisition of their OS. ...

and the acquisition of their OS. ...