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> This article is a little nauseating in its low key drooling over Apple

The author ran Apple Europe and then moved to the US and was an Apple VP for a long time. If anyone is allowed to have this kind of attitude then it's reasonable in Gassée.

In people in general, it's...weird.

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Wasn’t aware of that - thanks for the context!

Gassée also started Be Inc which created BeOS. Beyond being great in and of itself, BeOS was also slated to be the successor to Mac OS 9. If you're an operating system or file system nerd, you will find it very worth looking into BeOS. Gassée overplayed his hand and Apple's acquisition of Be Inc fell through.

Apple ultimately went with the NeXT / Steve Jobs combo, quite wisely, but for a long time there was a whole gang of BeOS fanboys lamenting that decision.

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