The Deal That Makes No Sense

Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by mbesto on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @09:23AM (#6320763)

The Deal That Makes No Sense - Was Apple Forced Into Buying NeXT?

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by Philadelphia on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @12:19PM (#6321797)

The NeXT deal made perfect sense. Copland, Apple's internal effort at making a next-generation OS, had failed, and they needed to acquire a pre-baked operating system. Speculation at the time had them acquiring BeOS, but they went with NeXT instead, and the rest is history.

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by MaysonL on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @11:27AM (#6321471)

Thing is, Apple got a great OS and a great CEO. WTF did MS get that is at all comparable?

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by mbesto on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @11:55AM (#6321651)

Apple happily shuttled out what they had perceived was a bad CEO, just as we all sit here in our armchairs preaching the same thing about MS.

MS gets a device manufacturer, which allows them to compete with Samsung and Apple.

Hindsight is 20/20.

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by mark-r on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @07:07PM (#6324480)

Maybe Stephan Elop will be the successor to Steve Ballmer?

I'll let you know if I see any pigs flying.

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