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On 7/16/2010 2:21 PM, JC Dill wrote:
> David Kaye wrote:
>> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> it's ludicrous to think that microsoft bailed them out.
>>
>> I beg to differ. Here's a quote:
>>
>> ""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, who has been assigned to run the company's
>> daily operations until a successor to outgoing CEO Gilbert Amelio is
>> found.
>> So, the deal strengthens Apple's viability, as told by Apple's chief
>> FINANCIAL officer. That sounds to me like Apple was hitting the skids.
>
> You have a very strange way of interpreting the phrase "strengthens
> Apple's viability" because to me (and I'm sure to many others) it
> doesn't mean anything like you concluded.
>
> First, viability doesn't *just* mean financial status. It means "capable
> of normal growth and development", and strengthened viability means just
> that, strengthened. When someone with a good physique works out, they
> strengthen their body. That doesn't mean they were weak to start with!
>
> Viability refers to not just financial status, but also a company's
> status in the industry, their partners, etc. One of the major things
> that strengthened Apple's viability as a result of this settlement was
> that Microsoft had to keep making software that runs on the Mac OS such
> as Office. Without Office for the Mac, Apple would have been in a world
> of hurt. (Not so much today, with so many other competing office
> applications that can read and write in the MS office formats. But back
> then this would have been a deal breaker for anyone who wanted to use a
> Mac and interface with colleagues using MS OSs.) In the opening
> paragraph at the link you cited:
>
>  > http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-202143.html
>
> "Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said today As the Macworld turns that the
> software giant will invest $150 million in Apple and will develop and
> ship future versions of its Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, and
> development tools for the Macintosh."
>
> The money was trivial compared to the agreement that MS keep developing
> and shipping MS software for Macs.
>
> jc

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

John