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    #41
    Originally posted by snaw View Post
    Ms beat apple on prce and apps. First year or windows 3 and mac 2 there were something like 30,000 apps for ms developed and 3000 for apple, mainly down to how apple license aps. Verymuch like what they're doing now in fact.
    Indeed. It was Bill Gates that realised the potential for a snowball effect: more people would buy the OS if there were more apps for it, and more developers would write apps for their OS if more people used it.

    That's why MS dominated the desktop OS world.
    Last edited by VectraMan; 11 April 2010, 16:18.
    Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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