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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?"
If they teamed up, we would have Windows running on Macs. Oh, wait...
...and you will be treated to the comment that's going to be my next .SIG line here.
"Longhorn is a pig!" -- Jim Allchin
And this was said when Allchin was heading up development on Longhorn. Hilarious if it weren't true, even more hilarious because it is.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
"Hey! You got chocolate in my peanut butter!"
"You got peanut butter in my chocolate!"
In this case, though, read "strychnine" instead of "peanut butter".
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Microsoft in a pink skirt.
I haven't seen a BSOD in years in either XP or Linux. Have you considered that you may suck at life?*
*No, I didn't actually mean that.
Hm, brown iPods anyone?
You left the strikethrough tag on when you wrote the S in 'MS'. I'm not sure how you got it to go vertical, but I'd definitely look into that.
And Steve asked him to fuck off
-S