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| Authored by: mcinsand on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 09:24 AM EDT |
| I wish I had saved documentation, but I distinctly remember MS giving a
donkeyload of cash to Apple during one of the periods when Apple was on the
verge of going bankrupt. From the articles as well as several of our
perspectives, MS was doing whatever it took to keep Apple alive in order to at
least have someone that MS could claim as a competitor. It was a good
deal for MS because most people wanted choice and hardware* support, which Apple
didn't/doesn't offer (*use the 'hardware support' benchmark applied to FOSS; if
you can't use whatever motherboard from Tigerdirect with whatever hard drive
from NewEgg with whatever RAM from Mom-n-Pop cornerPC, then 'hardware support'
is well within noise of zero.). It was also a good deal for Apple, because it
kept their doors open. So, in the overall personal computer market our
technologically-illiterate regulators could count two suppliers, to conclude
that there was competition, despite the fact that the two slices do not really
overlap.
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