alt Hacker News> and Mac OS would have been replaced by something
The facts are: The only other contender was BeOS, after Talligent flopped and Copland imploded.
But Louis-Gassée overplayed his hand.
Source: all of the (other) Steve Jobs books
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rbanffy • today at 2:23 PM
> But Louis-Gassée overplayed his hand.
Hence becoming Jean-Louis Passé.
To put this into more context Apple really needed a modern kernel that for some reason had been tried multiple times and failed . Microsoft succeeded with Windows NT. Practically the acquisition of any company was motivated to just move a GUI with macOS classic like design but modern features like memory protection. I never really understood why Apple had a hard time with this.