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| Authored by: egan on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 11:06 PM EDT |
Apple didn't exactly partner with Microsoft, but years ago it approached
Microsoft to invest in it, in order to maintain a droll charade that Microsoft
had competition in the PC market.
Microsoft bought something like $100mn or so of Apple's stock to keep it going
through some lean years, and ultimately Jobs beat Gates by creating the iPhone.
So yes, Apple did benefit.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 05:00 AM EDT |
Samsung didn't exactly partner with Microsoft to any
significant with regard to Windows Phone 7/8, but it sure
did benefit massively when Microsoft took out the then
Smartphone leader Nokia by signing an exclusive deal with
Nokia to sell only their Windows phone lemons, which are
still not selling in significant numbers. This basically
killed off Symbian and Meego which were outselling Windows
Phone by an order of magnitude, and handed over their
marketshare to Samsung's Android phone and turned Nokia from
market leader when the deal was signed into a two bit player
in the biggest corporate sales collapse in recent history.
It is true to say that if Microsoft hadn't signed the
Windows phone exclusive deal with Nokia, Android would
probably not have as dominant a market share it does today.
Not that Microsoft has done badly out of it - Microsoft
earns much more money out of Android extortion scamming
(sorry patent licensing), than it does out of Windows phone.
The only loser is Nokia.
The moral of the story - be very careful about business
deals with a company which runs its business on protection
scams and racketeering in much the same way as the Mafia
did, and whose business practices come straight from the Al
Capone school of business, because if you accept business
deals on those terms, nothing good will come of it. Barnes
and Noble have shown how to deal with protection racket
mobsters and profit from them.
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| Authored by: albert on Friday, April 26 2013 @ 12:49 PM EDT |
but be sure you have a bullet-proof employment contract if you want to stay
working there.
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