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Title: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: SysAdmin on December 11, 2013, 02:29:59 AM
Now that would truly be insane. It might give the Amiga a fighting chance as people would look for new alternatives.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/23254/insane-prediction-year-microsoft-will-merge-apple

Here is the shocking video.

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2913511633001/fitz-gerald-apple-and-microsoft-may-merge-in-5-10-years/
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: Iggy on December 11, 2013, 12:54:48 PM
Nope, I won't even look at that one.
Its silly.
AND the SEC would never allow it.
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: bloodline on December 11, 2013, 01:09:42 PM
Even before the obvious, I just can't see what advantage it would have for either company!
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: XDelusion on December 11, 2013, 01:57:59 PM
Sure why not.... anti-monopoly laws (the laws that protect us from Corporate Communism) are being trampled upon and eroded every day.
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: B00tDisk on December 11, 2013, 03:24:06 PM
Reminds me of one of my signature lines from back in the day: The most feared merger: FBIBM.  :)

(except...that's kind of happened with the NSA and every tech company :P )
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: persia on December 12, 2013, 03:52:45 AM
It could easily be argued that with Android as competition it wouldn't really create a monopoly.  Ubuntu Linux tablets are due out next year.  The times they are a changing....
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: gertsy on December 12, 2013, 07:29:16 AM
Quote from: persia;754223
It could easily be argued that with Android as competition it wouldn't really create a monopoly.  Ubuntu Linux tablets are due out next year.  The times they are a changing....


The are, sounds like standard crap fare to me. It would be ironic though seeing as Microsoft pumped so much dosh into the Apple bailout in '97. Perhaps that was a deposit?

Ubuntu Linux tablets. Sounds like a great idea.
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: Nlandas on December 12, 2013, 08:42:04 PM
I doubt that this will happen or even could. If it did though, I'm done. I'm finding a new career and I'll be running nothing but Open Source operating systems and software from that point on.
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: persia on December 13, 2013, 02:22:26 AM
Quote from: gertsy;754232
The are, sounds like standard crap fare to me. It would be ironic though seeing as Microsoft pumped so much dosh into the Apple bailout in '97. Perhaps that was a deposit?

Ubuntu Linux tablets. Sounds like a great idea.


What would be more difficult would be Microsoft/Google.  That would provide a domination that would be scary.
Title: Re: Insane prediction of the year: Microsoft will merge with Apple
Post by: Iggy on December 13, 2013, 02:28:27 AM
Quote from: persia;754223
It could easily be argued that with Android as competition it wouldn't really create a monopoly.  Ubuntu Linux tablets are due out next year.  The times they are a changing....


No they are not (answered on an Android tablet).