10: Apple's Mac OS Crisis: The Bake-Off (Part 6)

Torn between Be and NeXT, Gil Amelio tries to analyze it all scientifically, including final demos from both teams. But was the end result a foregone conclusion?

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John Siracusa (relay.fm/people/siracusa)

Links and Show Notes:
Presented by Myke Hurley and Jason Snell. Special guest John Siracusa.

Written by Jason Snell. Thanks to Stephen Hackett, Harry McCracken, Hansen Hsu of the Computer History Museum (computerhistory.org), and Scott Knaster for script assistance.

Audio editing by Myke Hurley and Jim Metzendorf. Video production by Jamie Snell.

Designed in California theme by Christopher Breen (chrisbreen.com).

References:

• MacUser (vintageapple.org/macuser) and Macworld (vintageapple.org/macworld) magazines issues from the period

• Apple: The Inside Story of Intrigue, Egomania, and Business Blunders (abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31407544…) by Jim Carlton

• On the Firing Line (isbn.nu/9780887309199) by Gil Amelio

• Apple Confidential 2.0 (isbn.nu/9781593270100) by Owen Linzmayer

• Grateful Geek (amzn.to/4zeB7VZ) by Jean-Louis Gassée

• iCon (isbn.nu/9780471787846) by Jeffrey S. Young

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