Conspiracy Theory: Microsoft has been bribing Motorola to screw Apple for years

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Conspiracy Theory: Microsoft has been bribing Motorola to screw Apple for years.



the amount of money that MS would have to give MOT for throwing the game is so miniscule compared to their overall expeditures that it would be silly for them not to



especially now since MOT and MS are getting real cozy - business wise.



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  • Reply 1 of 6
    mrmistermrmister Posts: 1,095member
    Yawn.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    Quote:

    Originally posted by bluesigns

    Conspiracy Theory: Microsoft has been bribing Motorola to screw Apple for years.



    the amount of money that MS would have to give MOT for throwing the game is so miniscule compared to their overall expeditures that it would be silly for them not to



    especially now since MOT and MS are getting real cozy - business wise.



    http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/uni...5?OpenDocument




    Come to think of it, I do remember Bill Gates making a joke... something about his keychain being a 7 ghz G5 that the world would never see, muhahaha.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    macsrgood4umacsrgood4u Posts: 3,007member
    No wonder some macheads are considered to be.... uh, nuts? Must be mid summer blues or something.
  • Reply 4 of 6
    *LOL*



    As if...



    If MS wanted Apple to die, they would have already... They earn quite a bit of money on mac software..
  • Reply 5 of 6
    bluesignsbluesigns Posts: 315member
    they don't want Apple to die...



    they need Apple to prove they are not a monopoly.



    they just want Apple to be sufficiently hobbled as to not be a serious threat, ever.



    go ahead and do the math on how much business Apple transacts with Motorola each year.



    it's pocket change to MS. yet Apple's whole life depended on that relationship for a while. not good business.



    "...we like to have options..."



    yes, more like, we NEED to have options.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    The last hardware company to get cozy with MS was Digital Equipment. Food for thought.



    As for Motorola's performance, I honestly don't think there's any need to look outside the company for explanations. Chris Galvin made a lot of really dumb decisions that hurt Motorola in many ways far beyond their relationship with Apple, and far beyond the Semiconductor Products Sector (Iridium, anyone?). Mot's troubles started right about when Chris Galvin took the reins, and their recent turnaround began when the shareholders threatened to take them away.



    The most Microsoftoid move was when their newly-hired CTO blindly moved the company to all Wintel in order to "make his mark on the company," but again that's entirely believable behavior for a CTO, absent any conspiracy from Redmond.
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