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Microsoft bailed out Apple and see how that turned out.
by bazqux2 10y ago
Microsoft bailed out Apple and see how that turned out.
- samfisher83 10y agoMicrosoft still owns the majority (90%+) of the desktop market and the office market. They always had kind of crappy mobile os and that hasn't changed.
- tuxracer 10y agoSure but the smartphone space at the time was an insignificant percentage of the market. That's by far no longer the case now. Having a crappy mobile OS in 2000 is a magnitudes smaller problem than having a crappy mobile OS in 2016.
- user5994461 10y agoIs there any reason to believe that Apple would have follow led the way to mobile/phone/tablet if it were acquired by Microsoft a long time ago?