[SJSAMPLE]

I know.
At least Microsoft’s use of Apple code allowed Apple to keep the doors open. Shame Apple couldn’t turn a profit on its own product.

Maybe Apple should countract Microsoft for other revenue projects as well?

[Star Traveler]

Microsoft settlement money (for stealing code from Apple) was gravy on the success... :-) Steve Jobs was the key and always has been. Now it appears that Apple has learned quite a bit from Steve Jobs and will be around for quite a long time.

Actually, Apple has been around, already for quite a long time, considering that even IBM isn’t making their desktops any longer (the one they started out with in 1981). Heck! Apple was doing that before IBM, and they’re still doing it now — long after IBM conceded defeat and got out of this business segment... LOL...

[Swordmaker]

At least Microsoft’s use of Apple code allowed Apple to keep the doors open. Shame Apple couldn’t turn a profit on its own product.

BS, Sysample. Apple had over 1.2 billion dollars in CASH when Microsoft STOLE the code for Quicktime... and wound up having to pay them to license it AND to pay $150 million in addition. Apple was never in any danger of closing its doors.