Hi Max!
I don't know about the numbers you are using but virtually everybody in the
computer industry knew that Apple was reeling during this period, having
marketing and sales failures after marketing and sales failures and on the
verge of giving up the ghost. If it hadn't been for Bill Gates intervention
and his very public support, in many areas, not just the cash, Apple almost
certainly would have folded in those times. His support added the legitimacy
that Apple HAD to have to survive. Only pure die hard Mac fans have disputed
this in the past. Gates pulled out Apple just as the government pulled out
Chrysler and just as British Leyland did NOT pull out MG (the required LBC
content).
Though my personal preference is the PC, I DO hope that Apple survives, and
it does look as if things have improved for them.
Heck. We own 350 computers - and one of them is a brand new Mac! Nice
machine!
-Jerry Erbesfield
73 B Black Beauty roadster
jerbesfield@mindspring.com
website- http://jerbesfield.home.mindspring.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Max Heim
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:52 AM
To: MG List
Subject: Re: Off-topic: Viruses and Macs
I just have to refute this common fallacy. Yes, Microsoft gave Apple $150
million several years ago, ostensibly to settle licensing issues. But at the
time, Apple had $4 billion in cash reserves. So how did this measly $150
million "save" Apple? Basically, it was a bribe to keep them out of the
antitrust case. BTW, Apple still has billions in cash as of this quarter,
not to mention the highest margins in the computer business. Gateway should
be so lucky...
on 4/29/02 9:49 PM, Jerry Erbesfield at jerbesfield@mindspring.com wrote:
> If it hadn't been for
> Microsoft's Bill Gates infusion of many millions of dollars into Apple
> Computers a few short years ago, Apple would already be dead.
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