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The Partnership That Could Have Changed Everything
DesertBlade writes "Bloomberg is reporting that, at one point, Microsoft had considered an Apple/iPod partnership before it released its own MP3 player. Microsoft was apparently displeased with MP3 players partnerships they had already made, notably the Creative and Dell models. This information came from court documents introduced in an antitrust lawsuit from Iowa. From the article: 'Microsoft had been working with partners on music devices for at least a year before Apple introduced the iPod in 2001 and catapulted to a dominant position in the market. Microsoft and its partners failed to come up with compelling hardware and had difficulty getting software to properly connect music collections on computers with their devices.' If this Apple/Microsoft partnership was formed how would this have changed the Microsoft and Apple dynamics?"
Everything that Apple has written for Windows, from iTunes to the Quicktime player, is basically crap. Apple is not good at developing software for the Windows platform, and it almost seems like they do not care to be. At least Microsoft would have a little extra incentive to make their platform look good.
And everything that Microsoft has written for Windows is basically crap - so what's the difference?
At least Microsoft would have a little extra incentive to make their platform look good.History shows that this is not true. They are perfectly happy for Windows to look like crap, as they have a monopoly. Since when did Microsoft care about the quality of Windows or the software that runs on it?
... and then they built the supercollider.