skingers

At 900 bucks more for a 2 extra cores and a thermally challenged PCIE slot, this article did a great job of highlighting the value of the Mac Mini over the Nuc 9.  I agree a mid range headless Mac with internal expansion slot or two would be nice, but not in this footprint.

What a ridiculous beat up.  People can choose to buy this or not.  If you can't afford to buy this and toilet roll, I suggest you buy the toilet roll, it's entirely within your power.

In the meantime Apple are paying their closed store employees full pay through the crisis and should be applauded.

Mike Wuerthele said:

sflocal said:

magman1979 said:

I'm stunned and dismayed that a site like AppleInsider, even in the year 2018, continues to peddle the falsehood that Bill Gates was Apple's saviour! This has been debunked OVER and OVER again, and is a blunt LIE that was peddled by mainstream media in the late 90's whilst Apple was in dire straights.

Please REMOVE the phrase "and one-time savior of Apple" from the opening statement, it's a blunt and proven lie!

Apple and Microsoft were battling due to MS' infringement of Quicktime codec.  Apple was also very close to losing it all.  While "Savior" may be a bit melodramatic, I don't expect anything less from the media (including AI) to fluff pieces and claim "that's what everyone does".  

The reality is that Apple really needed that $150m to prevent going under.  Call it whatever you want, but that money did keep Apple afloat long enough for Steve Jobs to set a clear and profitable course.

In no way is it a lie, or a "fluff."

Like it or not, there is no question that the money, the development deal to make sure that Office (and Internet Explorer!) remained on the Mac, plus the cessation of the QuickTime lawsuit saved Apple's ass.

No, Magman is correct.  This was not some kind of altruistic side of Microsoft or even an action designed to provide good "optics".  It was a settlement for a lawsuit where Microsoft was caught red handed stealing code from quicktime.  

Here's an article that describes what actually happened, written some 20 years closer to the actual event.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_150m/

"David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million."

No, Microsoft did not choose to "save" Apple, it was settlement for stolen quicktime code, plain and simple.