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Bing To Become Default iPhone Search?
snydeq writes "BusinessWeek reports ongoing talks between Apple and Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for the iPhone. The discussions reflect an accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, one that some believe will be the most important rivalry in tech in the years to come. 'Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy,' says one person familiar with Apple's thinking. 'Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.'"
Used to as a child, I wanted a computer. On Christmas one year I got a vic-20. Like everybody else I played games on it. It didn't do much. What was the purpose for it? Back then we couldn't type papers in a word processor. You could make blocks move around and save them to a tape-player. So I didn't get hooked because I had an Atari. I could sit down and play for 10 minutes and leave it behind. But none the less I struggled to learn. So eventually I got a Tandy 1000 sl. I played more games on it. This has been the recurring factor throughout life. Now-a-days we just update facebook and taut how cool we are because we compiled a kernel in Linux. We express how elite we are by the mods we make to our game consoles. How we put down $300.00 for an operating system just so we could play a game. Switching operating systems, worrying about virus's, different component support, drivers, dvd-playback, why is it nobody is happy? Point of this is watching the original movie you developed an opinion that Gates, Jobs, and everyone else were just a bunch of jerks wasting our time. Money
As the old saying goes...Adversity makes strange bed fellows.
Both IBM and Intel were once portrayed as "enemies" by Apple, and both were lampooned in the Apple ads of the day. Partnering with IBM or Intel was once considered inconceivable by Apple's more "enthusiastic" fans. Yet it happened. It would be more difficult in the Microsoft case, but with Apple anything is possible.
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Apple produces great hardware to run Microsoft software, even their OS, on.
Apple's switch to Intel CPUs was a good thing in and of itself, it erased the performance gap. However the single thing that did the most to improve Apple's market share may have been Apple's support of Microsoft Windows on their hardware. For decades having to choose PC or Mac blocked sales, some folks were interested in Mac but needed a PC for compatibility with work or gaming. With Boot Camp the PC or Mac choice was no longer a barrier, you could have both on the same system.
To a lesser degree the switch to Intel performed a similar role. Emulation of Windows became practical since the CPU instruction set no longer had to be entirely emulated.
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How the hell is this "trolling"?? The last line in that post literally instructs you on how to see this for yourself. Nice modding.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.