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Re:Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company by another2another on Friday January 12, 2024 @08:34AM (#38967720)
>probably wouldn't be around if Microsoft hadn't given them $150M to save them from bankruptcy in 1997

I'm _pretty_ sure Apple could have gotten the money from elsewhere if they really had to. It's history now, so we'll never know for sure, but I'd bet that they could have found other investors if they really had to. People seem to think it's a black and white scenario - money from MS or death! But I don't think it ever was.

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Re:Microsoft overtakes Apple as most valuable company by nineteen999 on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:04PM (#38973223)
The 70's through 90's were littered with the corpses of computer companies that were outcompeted and never recovered - the IBM PC/DOS/Windows 3.x effectively killed not only the competing CP/M (8080/Z80) market for PC's, but outcompeted the Amiga, Atari ST, and of course the entire 8-bit market was obsoleted by the 16-bit 80[2]86. Apple's struggle to enhance MacOS to keep up (vs Win95/NT juggernaut) at that time are well documented. At least Apple still had some brand recognition, so maybe you are right.
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