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BeOS was a great technical experiment and a terrible product.

It had no drivers, no printing support, no decent SDK and was generally immature across the board. It would have been a disaster for Apple to use it who actually had real customers to support. I really wonder whether BeOS was ever a serious consideration over NeXT.



The talent who made it ended up managing the creation and development of the iPod though.


Upvoted. If anyone knows about great technical experiments that were terrible products, it's someone named Taligent. <:)




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