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Its logo is as Just as Claris was poised to go public, Apple A recognizable a badge of quality as Nike’s swallowed it back into the main company – losing its swoosh or Michelin’s tyre-man. Even to people whose inspired boss Bill Campbell in the process. ClarisWorks only personal computer is their cash machine, Apple became AppleWorks, and has never really been the means innovation, quality and style. same since. Claris’s FileMaker, on the other hand, has Yet, according to at least one high-profile developer, gone from strength to strength as a cross-platform- the fact that QuickTime’s made by Apple is actually solutions company. Apple also spun-off its Newton PDA putting-off large-enterprise customers from using it. team, but later pulled it back in, pushed it back out, and As you’ll read on page 18, there are suggestions that then wound the whole sorry mess up. Apple would do better to set QuickTime free – floating Clearly, it’s no smooth ride separating from Apple’s it off as a separate company that could expend every Cupertino mothership. While I can see the benefits of effort in taking it to its rightful place as the number- an unfettered QuickTime, there seems little chance of one multimedia-delivery technology on the Internet. this idea getting out of Steve’s secretary’s in-box. Apple refutes this, saying that QuickTime is ahead of a At exactly the same time that people are urging game that’s only just begun, and that it will take first Apple to spin-off some of its neat technologies, place away from RealNetworks’ RealPlayer before Microsoft is fighting fanged-tooth and nail-bomb to Microsoft’s proprietary Media Player steals a march. stay in one piece. While Apple is supposedly struggling But Apple hasn’t always been so keen to keep all its to pay full-attention to its many related technologies, “I can’t see products under one roof. History tells another story, Microsoft is deemed monopolistic with its myriad where a break-up could easily have occurred by now, of Windows operating systems, Office suites, flight- Steve Jobs and where future splits are quite possible. simulators, Web browser, email clients, development wielding an Apple very nearly merged with giant American tools, encyclopedias, e-book reader, Web editor, page- telecoms corporation AT&T in 1993. The plan was layout tool, joysticks, and mice all under the one axe to Apple, to create a dominant online multimedia company – platinum-lined roof. Oh, and don’t forget the upcoming unless it’s in the same vein as AOL/Time Warner today. The deal Xbox games console… collapsed, so then-CEO John Sculley proposed a bold Microsoft recently overturned the US government’s to chop plan to split Apple into two companies. legal judgement that the company be broken-up. Bill One half – the Macintosh Company – would handle Gates and co. are still guilty of corporate mass- some bozo’s the low-margin hardware business, building and misdemeanours, but the court has now declared that head off.” selling Macs, much like Compaq and Dell shift PCs. The Microsoft can remain in one highly successful piece. other half would be the Apple Company – in charge of In light of Bill’s ability to keep one eye fixed on software projects, such as Cyberdog and QuickTime. Windows, and the other on either Golf 2001, Office XP, Apple’s board of directors approved the plan, and Age of Empires II or Xbox, why would Steve suppose an investment bank began preliminary work on the himself unable to keep check of QuickTime at the same break-up. Apple made 95 per cent of its profits from time as Mac OS X and Pixar’s Monsters Inc.? hardware, so it was important to keep those revenues. Sure, QuickTime will grow only if it’s adopted by But Sculley knew that a software company, unshackled users and developers of Windows. But the facts that from the hardware, would – just like Microsoft – be free QuickTime was the first software-based multimedia to license its technology to whomever it chose. solution and is still the best, that Microsoft slavishly Sculley’s plan was scuppered by a mutiny involving copied QuickTime’s interface for its Media Player, that his most senior executives – none of whom wanted to MPEG-4 is based on Apple’s technology, and that work on the unsexy hardware side. Now that Apple’s QuickTime is a whole lot more than a Web media player hardware is as glamorous as Elton John’s wardrobe, proves that Apple can still win the war, despite lagging there might be less opposition to such a split – but I behind at present. can’t see Steve Jobs wielding an axe to Apple, unless it’s Apple should redouble its efforts to progress the to chop some bozo’s head off. multimedia standard – leveraging the full might of its Actually, Apple has successfully separated hardware world-renowned brand to project QuickTime into the and software in the past. In 1987, Apple created a new consciousness of developers and public alike. The Apple company to develop and sell its software programs – brand is nothing to be ashamed of. It’s something to such as the ClarisWorks integrated suite of business shout loudly from the roof tops. MW 4 Macworld AUGUST 2001 Read more Macworld opinions online (www.macworld.co.uk), and join in the debate. AUGUST 2001 Contents COVER STORIES 79 Ultimate Macs The best setups for home, business, design studio, school, video and music. Maya oh my 95 The 3D-graphics leviathan is set to bring the world of Hollywood special effects to Mac OS X. Mac power explained Home networking 88 Before you buy, find out what 131 Your guide to creating really affects the speed of the networked house your Mac and applications. of the future. page 6 Macworld AUGUST 2001 5 CONTACT Editor-in-Chief Simon Jary [email protected] Deputy Editor David Fanning Macworld www.macworld.co.uk AUGUST 2001 Contents [email protected] News Editor Jonathan Evans [email protected] News Reporter Dominique Fidéle [email protected] NEWS CREATE REVIEWS Managing Editor Sean Ashcroft [email protected] Chief Sub-Editor Woody Phillips Developers’ QuickTime [email protected] 18 freedom plea Java developers Art Editor James Walker [email protected] rush to Mac LCD price war in full Art Director Mandie Johnson swing Network publishing Adobe’s future [email protected] Bryce 5 out for X Mac Outlook 2001 Managing Editor/Online Gillian Thompson good for Windows networks Macintosh [email protected] 48 CD Editor Vic Lennard family reunion Apple targets Mac at Contributing editors David Pogue, Deke McClelland, US schools PageMaker revived by PDF Franklin Tessler, Bruce Fraser, Party on, Sims Adobe bucks IT trend 48 Maxon Cinema4D XL 7 Christopher Breen, SmartDisk ‘stands by Mac’ 49 Corel Bryce 5 Matthew Bath, Peter Cohen, Missing manual: How to: pdf Adam C Engst, Jim Heid, 137 142 51 Iomega Peerless Andy Ihnatko, David Blatner. 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