Posted on 04/24/2020 1:41:17 PM PDT by rktman
Guess it’s a good indication that he can’t be trusted.
Apple wasn’t going to underbid Compaq in those days. A ton of compaq systems were sold, they were also under government contract, so you didn’t even need to bid, you could just buy them.
Yes it made their job easier, that was the point of technology, if it was going to make things more difficult, there was no business reason to pursue it. As for government bidding giving us better operating systems, I don’t understand how that would work.
Microsoft ruled because they went after the corporate desktop while Apple was too busy playing grab ass with “artists” and losers who couldn’t really afford anything. They did not want the corporate desktop because it was a bunch of IBM stiffs and Steve Jobs really did hate those people. The biggest fallacy of Steve Jobs was that he thought his competition was IBM and their corporate stiff organization and didn’t realize Microsoft was their competition until it was really too late and Steve was replaced with the Sugar Water Dude.
What Steve Jobs didn’t want, Bill Gates took and built an entire empire on it. And once Gates took the corporate desktop, every body wanted one, because, well everyone wanted want they were using at work, schools followed and home users followed. Nobody cared what some couch surfing artist used, or what some hippie who didn’t bath in 5 months thought or what some kneckbeard locked down in the corporate basement fiddling with the mainframes or COBOL code wanted.
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