#New Rumor 10/2
>> In that regard (re your comment on Amiga's Motorola dependency) very
>> disturbing report this week that Motorola will begin manufacturing
>> Macintosh clones. It is becoming a vertically integrated company. I'm sure
>> it'll still sell 68XXXX and PowerPC chips to whomever wants to buy, but at
>> what price?
Motorolas computers will not be Mac Clones. They will use the power PC chip,
but not be Mac work alikes. Apple has only once liscensed their operating
system for any computer, and that was the an Apple II+ clone named after Albert
Einstein. The Motorola computers will carry other brand names at first, and
have been seen as a way to boost lagging Power PC sales. (With the below
expectation sales of the Mac Power PC, and the delayed entry of the IBM Power
PC, Motorola needs something to help move those chips.)
As far as continued sales of 68vvvv and Power PC chips. Motorola will sell
them as long as there is a demand, and it is to Motorola's beneift to get them
into as many different brands of machines as possible. They do not have a
market dominant computer, to sell. Can you imagine what would have happened to
Intel, had they cut off IBM, before clones dominated the market? Motorola is
fighting an uphill battle against Intel. They need all the friends and
customers they can get. To cut folks off would be suicide. (Or did Gould and
Mhedi get jobs at Motorola while nobody was looking? <G>)