RE: The death of Rhapsody

Jim Whitehead (ejw@ICS.uci.edu)
Sun, 7 Jun 1998 15:20:51 -0700

So, in the end, Rhapsody is three things: a) a brilliant publicity move, b)
a successful mechanism to get Steve Jobs re-engaged with Apple, and c) the
death blow to NeXT. However, lovers of BeOS and Linux beware, the network
effects exerted by MacOS overcame the technical superiority of Rhapsody.

- Jim

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> http://www.zdnet.com/macweek/1222/nw_rhapsody.html
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> Tim
> -
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> Nobody really cared if Apple tanked it,
> but now if Apple tanks it, it also tanks NeXT,
> and we're going to do everything in our power
> to make sure that doesn't happen. ... anonymous NeXT employee
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