Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple's in trouble again Date: 29 Jan 2015 16:11:54 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <54c8e9e8$0$44154$c3e8da3$3a1a2348@news.astraweb.com> <1lyynfi.1u0vkagt4enysN%nmassello@yahoo.com> <290120151430580788%YourName@YourISP.com> <280120152225308679%michelle@michelle.org> <290120150750383249%michelle@michelle.org> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net GFe4KajrNEES4HgGkTophwmSNQlnsKlkfyizEPD/rRrpWDyUKg Cancel-Lock: sha1:HRKHcJQa5RhcPuBs7mKf3wFl6Yk= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:69314 On 2015-01-29, Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article , Huge > wrote: > >> > Microsoft has little, if anything, that Apple needs or wants. >> >> Other than lots (and lots and lots and lots) of corporate customers. Apple >> is essentially nowhere in corporates. > > For Apple to take that on, Apple would have to take over the > development of Windows and of MS Office for Windows, and I am certain > that Apple doesn't want to do that, especially considering that that > would entail support and compatibility with hardware from Apple's > competitors. So Microsoft doesn't have anything that Apple needs. Want != Need Apple might be perfectly happy being a consumer company. It is, after all, making gargantuan amounts of money. The impression I gained when we met them was that they were definitely interested in breaking into the corporate market, but had nothing to offer us, which is a pain, since we have a large, thriving and growing underground community of Mac users who'd like to officially use them at work, where they are Forbidden. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 29th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.