Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: DevilsPGD
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:06

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In message <_S90o.36480$YX3.2910@newsfe18.iad> John Slade
<hhitman86@pacbell.net> was claimed to have wrote:

>       LOL. I love how they keep trying to spin this.

What's to spin?  Apple's own words indicate that Microsoft strengthened
Apple's viability.

"This deal strengthens Apple's viability. It's a new era in terms of
Apple and Microsoft working together," said Apple chief financial
officer Fred Anderson.

Whether Apple was viable without Microsoft or not is a matter of some
debate, I'd suggest that they could have stayed alive living on iPods
and similar, but I doubt they'd be much of a force in the world of
computers.

Their marketshare at the time wasn't particularly favourable and even
with their current ~10% market share, most line-of-business applications
just don't exist on OSX, so without a few basics that Microsoft
developed, Apple likely would have stayed relegated to schools and
people that needed to be told how to think "differently" and well away
from any serious business use.

*shrugs*

At this point it doesn't really matter.  Microsoft needs the
competition, and since Linux is uninterested or incapable of competiting
for the desktop world it's nice to have someone to drive Microsoft
forward.

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Subject: Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
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