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Microsoft's investment in Apple wasn't mere charity, if we're to believe this anecdote: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/03/01/steve-jobs-used-paten

by noarchy 14y ago

Microsoft's investment in Apple wasn't mere charity, if we're to believe this anecdote: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/03/01/steve-jobs-used-patents-to-get-bill-gates-to-make-1997-investment-in-apple/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/03/01/steve-job... Things like the iPhone weren't going to come from Microsoft. Rather than beating them in the desktop market, which Apple still hasn't done, it won on a different battlefield.

rprasad 14y ago
That was my point -- without the antitrust injunction, Microsoft would not have invested in Apple. Ergo, Apple owes its existence today to the injunction.
- noarchy 14y ago
  The article I linked never mentioned the injunction. Apple was suing Microsoft, and the investment by MS was part of how Steve Jobs offered to settle the matter.