Before you tell me that I'm crazy not to support them, take a look at several of the ideas. Rewrite BeOS so that it will start up existing Macs. Bundle it with new Macs instead of the normal system software. Under this option, all Mac applications, control panels and extensions become incompatible. The Mac instantly becomes a modern platform with no software.
Techy people wait for software to arrive, or write their own.
Everyone else switches to Windows. Very few new users choose the Mac because BeOS is not as easy to use as the Mac was, and because it has so little software. Apple loses respect because the company known for innovation has farmed out both its software and hardware businesses to third parties. Apple takes either of the above strategies and attempts to make BeOS compatible with Mac software. It writes a Macintosh emulator so that Mac apps can run within BeOS, much as DOS apps run in Windows 95.