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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: evaluation
23 Oct 2016 Acquired NeXT (Live show at the GeekWire Summit)
“I mean, you can chalk it up to organizational politics or you can chalk it up to the technology just being incredibly hard, but they were building an operating system codenamed I think Copland was the first version and they were going to have a second release called Gershwin.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 23 Oct 2016
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- Acquired
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…So Apple’s asking about, they’re trying to create a nextgeneration operating system. By this point in time everybody has recognized the power of what we’re talking about and Apple just can’t do it. They have two competing projects, three at various points, trying to build a modern operating system. They all fail. It’s wild to think about it. I mean, you can chalk it up to organizational politics or you can chalk it up to the technology just being incredibly hard, but they were building an operating system codenamed I think Copland was the first version and they were going to have a second release called Gershwin. There was kind of projects going on in parallel for how are we going to build a next generation operating system, and they just couldn’t do it. Honestly, it kind of reminds me of the Longhorn days at Microsoft. Oh God.…
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