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Their positions weren't reversed, and you don't know, and Jobs always hated the way Bill did business so you don't know that. For a start, apple builds product
by cloutchaser 5y ago
Their positions weren't reversed, and you don't know, and Jobs always hated the way Bill did business so you don't know that.
For a start, apple builds products that every single consumer made a choice to buy. And over 50% of them still choose android.
Bill gates went above almost all consumer's heads and sold windows to governments and big corporations, and then bundled their own software with it. It's part of the reason why the UX of windows was always so bad, because the end user wasn't making purchase decisions.
So no, I don't agree. Jobs hasn't been leading Apple for a long time. You don't know what he would have done, other than that he likes closed garden products. That's a long way from the anticompetitive behaviour that microsoft did over the years.
And again, window was like 95% of the market at it's peak. Apple is nowhere near that.
- shadowgovt 5y agoIronically, among the reasons Microsoft did so well in the government and large corporate spaces is that Microsoft made the software, not the hardware. Corporations didn't trust that you could only run Apple's software on Apple hardware. They could see the vendor lock in and they didn't want to take the risk of giving Apple the entire homestead. The story of Apple versus Microsoft has always been a story of a vertical monopoly pointing to a horizontal monopoly and saying how evil they are.