by chasil 3 days ago
Bearing in mind that Jobs famously intended to "knife the baby," referring to the cash flow from the 6502 machines, it is ironic that he fought to stop this clone.
I remember this phrase from a stage play, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, but Google shows this source:
https://www.theregister.com/1998/11/06/were_talking_about_kn...
The play doesn't even have its own wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Daisey#The_Agony_and_the_...
He also put a stop to the clone PowerMacs when he returned to Apple in the 90s.
Yeah, but the Apple ][ was so vital to Apple's survival/cash flow that they made a disastrous deal:
https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
and the PowerMac clones weren't doing anything interesting and were simply cannibalizing Mac sales, cutting into Apple's profits --- really wish at least one of them had made a tablet unit w/ a Wacom digitizer, but that was too small a market as Axiotron found when they did the ModBook (which I still regret not buying).