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Cringley doesn't seem to assign any value Apple gains by (I'm assuming) preventing IBM from pushing Android. This seems to me to as much about countering Andro

• higherpurpose 12y ago
  Since Apple has partnered with IBM, its once arch-enemy, I wonder if Google will partner with...Oracle, to enter in enterprise. Wouldn't that be funny. But I'm actually hoping that doesn't happen, and Google has other avenues they can use to enter enterprise more forcefully anyway.
  • mbreese 12y ago
    Did IBM ever view Apple as an arch-enemy though? I mean, sure Apple had the 1984 ad, so it was pretty clear that Apple thought of IBM as an enemy, but was the sentiment returned? I doubt IBM ever really gave them that much credit. And by the time that the new Apple came around, IBM was already well on it's way to being the services giant it is now. But, boy, would an Oracle/Google partnership be funny to watch from the sidelines.
  • snowwrestler 12y ago
    Apple and IBM worked very closely on PowerPC for years.
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• marknutter 12y ago
  Cringley doesn't seem to assign any value Apple gains, ever. As far back as I can remember he's always been down (and wrong) about Apple.
  • acomjean 12y ago
    He was an apple employee at the beginning. Offered stock, held out for the cash...probably a little bitter. He said this in his triumph of the Nerds documentary (quite good), and its repeated in wired. "He worked with Steve Jobs in the early days of Apple, and when Jobs offered him shares in the company as payment, Cringely held out for payment at $6 an hour. "Let's not think about that," he says. http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/cringely_pr.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/cringely_pr.html