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Jobs was pretty bold asking Dell for a royalty of every Dell PC sold. I'm curious what a world like that would have looked like, where you can choose between O
by raman162 5y ago
Jobs was pretty bold asking Dell for a royalty of every Dell PC sold.
I'm curious what a world like that would have looked like, where you can choose between OS X and Windows when purchasing a computer.
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- mistrial9 5y agoyou mean exactly as M$ft did ?!? "bold" ?! do-tell
- tombert 5y agoI'm not exactly a huge fan of MS, but at least when MS basically got a royalty for every Dell sold, there was a reasonable certainty that a vast majority of them were going to actually use Windows. It was the only OS pre-installed, meaning that unless the person was a geek (like basically anyone who hangs around HN), they were probably going to use Windows. If there were two operating systems installed, there's a good chance that a majority of people would still only use Windows, and Dell would be paying a license to Apple that only 10% of their customers actually used.
- nodejs_rulez_1 5y agoLet's not pretend that a sizable bunch of devs did not install Win 10 on their Intel macbooks. Apple was quite good at hardware at the time.
- fomine3 5y agoYou say Win7 or Win8?
- toast0 5y agoThose were tremendously bad terms, especially given what happened with the licensed Mac clone program which was ended, apparently shortly after these discussions with Dell.