![]() Not because MS sold applications (they did, and do, of course), but because they sold the OS that most native apps ran on.Īpple may eat up a lot of profits (30% cut) and restrict a lot of options (can't use third party browser engines, limits on use of embedded languages and side loading applications). ![]() Why? Because Netscape offered the potential (though still in its infancy) for web apps that would reduce/eliminate the market for native applications, which MS relied on. MS spent the money to develop IE, and then a billion dollars marketing it. Compaq nixed the deal with Be, because they couldn't afford the hit to their profit margin (PC margins were slim then, though they got tighter in the future). MS told Compaq that they'd have to pay the higher, direct-to-customer, cost for Windows licenses if they also sold BeOS, as opposed to the OEM license cost. Apple has not gone out of its way like MS did to block people from entering the general market (like MS did with BeOS and Netscape), let alone the market on their system.īeOS was going to be sold by Compaq. Android has the majority of the market share for mobile devices by a pretty decent margin.
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