| > Microsoft did great with phones didn’t they? Ballmer missed the boat, but Nadella is launching a new line of Android phones. I don't have a high degree of confidence in their venture, but time will tell. I really don't get this criticism, though. Microsoft has a market cap with the same order of magnitude as Apple. They're far from a bad tech company. > is the government going to also tell them how to design their OS and for what hardware? No. The government is going to split Apple into smaller companies. Apple will be told not to collude or do business exclusively with its old business units. They'll be free to do whatever they want from that point. > While the government is at it are they going to force both Google and Microsoft to divest their hardware business? Google will be split up as well. They're extremely anti-competitive. Every single company that went before congress is under incredible scrutiny right now, and rightly so. Microsoft has been playing nicely and isn't behaving anti-competitively. They learned their lesson in the 00's. |
Just down vote and move on like everybody else ;)