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> Questions: 
> 1. Is Apple a hardware company or Operating System company ???
> 2. Why should Apple support Executor and promote sales of x86 PCs. ??
> 3. What financial benefits will Apple receive by supporting Executor ??

Answers:

1. In its entire history, Apple has made only two products that have been
resounding popular successes:  the Apple ][, and the MacOS operating
system.  The ONLY reason people buy Macintosh computers is to run MacOS.

2 and 3.  The certain way to kill MacOS and Macintosh is to allow
developers to slip over to Windows and stop writing for Mac.  Right now,
all the financial inducements (not to mention social pressure, development
tools, and rational future vision) are lopsided in favor of Windows, as
pained as I am to say that.  Isn't it clear what Executor really could
mean for Apple?  Executor allows a developer to stay loyal to Mac, work
with the Mac APIs, and still be able to sell into the lucrative Windows
market!

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Kevin Killion                                 kevin@shsmedia.com
Stone House Systems, Inc.               http://www.mcs.net/~shs/


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