I do not think this is a coincidence. Apple is the one company which
Microsoft had to grant clear long term "IP" licenses to out of the anti-trust
cases of the 90s. Apple has always been the sold other system favoured with a
version of Microsoft Office. Neither company can afford to destroy the other.
There's very clearly an Apple/Microsoft/sort of Nokia cartel aiming to work
towards a split of the different parts of the computing industry.
If you
were Microsoft and you were negotiating that with Apple, it's pretty clear that
you, as an already convicted monopolist, would want Apple to do most of the
dirty work since their risk is much lower. I'd imagine that in some way or
other Apple has agreed to vigorously pursue these type of cases first in return
for a whole load of benefit from Microsoft.
If this was true, how would
you follow up and demonstrate it? I'm guessing that these would largely be
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