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The 100 million dollar investment from Apple ended up not being needed. Jobs put the hatchet to enough projects to reverse the trend himself. That investment fr
by philistine 2y ago
The 100 million dollar investment from Apple ended up not being needed. Jobs put the hatchet to enough projects to reverse the trend himself. That investment from Microsoft was valuable because they promised to keep releasing Office for Mac.
- leptons 2y agoNonetheless, Apple was almost out of business at one point. Microsoft invested in Apple instead of Commodore. If the opposite happened, we may be having a discussion about Commodore now, and not Apple.
- sgerenser 2y agoThat doesn't even make sense. Microsoft hadn't released any software for the Amiga AFAIK, while the Mac market for Word/Excel/Powerpoint was still a decent chunk of revenue for Microsoft at the time (obviously still much less than the Windows/PC market).