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Apple shows us how to compete with Microsoft
- dotcoma 18y agogood point. and, yes, what a move that would be on the part of Dell!
- nuclear_eclipse 18y agoExcept why the hell would Dell buy Red Hat when it already has a working partnership with Canonical to develop and distribute computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux? Dell doesn't need to buy a giant Linux vendor to have a well-designed Linux computer package; they already have that without buying anyone at all.
- Retric 18y agoMy favorite bill gates quite from years ago was something like: "on average we make more money on each Apple computer sold than Apple does." MS wants to protect Windows but they are not willing to let someone else create a dominate office sweet for a popular platform. PS: IMO Red Hat has little to offer Apple over OS X.
- chops 18y agoAll this does is show how antitrust (and the fear of antitrust legislation, which has no objective criteria for prosecution) cripples a company's ability to fully compete. Instead, the (market-wise) leader was forced to prop up it's competitor by virtue of the fact that they were unable to compete. Yes, Apple makes good products now and can compete on it's own terms, but it floundering when it accepted money from Microsoft. This isn't a good example of how to compete with your competitors at all, unless by compete, you mean "get money from them and constantly poke sticks at them, while they have no real recourse for fear of getting prosecuted."