26.09.2008 20:21 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Switched On: With friends like Google, does Apple need Microsoft?

Filed under: CellphonesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment. In the 1999 geek classic, "Pirates of Silicon Valley", an Apple employee watching the famous "1984" commercial with Steve Jobs points to the Big Brother character -- intended to represent IBM -- and then points to Bill Gates of Microsoft, whom Jobs has just introduced as part of Apple's family. The silent message is that the real threat to Apple is Microsoft, not IBM, and indeed the following scene depicts Jobs confronting Gates after Jobs sees Windows 1.0 running on an NEC PC.That scene, set in

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