Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 7th Oct 2005 14:09 UTC
"After feverishly working throughout 1995, it was finally decided that the results of 5 years of low profile work were ready for a public launch. When one considers that little over a year earlier, Be's entire hardware platform had been made redundant by the demise of the AT&T Hobbit processors, this was a remarkable achievement." Ten years ago, the legendary BeBox computer was introduced by Be,Inc at Agenda '95. Joseph Palmer has put up a gallery of photos of the event.
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Member since::-) I was around Be at the time, after having spend some time around Nextbefore, so I qualify for both sides:-)
Be careful with what you read about the price Be was supposedly asking for. There's never been any communication on this topic neither from Apple nor from Be.
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Why do you list price as a reason to go with the A plan (Next) instead of the Be plan?
As reported at the time, Gassee wanted more for Be than Apple was willing to pay, given Be's maturity as a platform. Next was seen as worth (a lot) more, given that it had been around longer, had more software available, and had a fair size installed base.
If Be had started (publicly) when Next did, they would have had more time in a much less difficult environment, and maybe they'd have pulled it off, or had the reputation to get their price. Next was always crippled by its extreme pricing, which prevented much of a community from starting outside a few colleges; their software was good enough (at the time, with very little competition) to sell & maintain a foothold after their boxes died, unlike Be.
Let's see if that was enough for a flaming by the Cocoa-philes!