AAPL, MS need each other?

Apple and Microsoft need each other to resolve both company's "impossible" problems, according to one columnist. A TechNewsWorld column explores the possibility of Microsoft acquiring Apple, as well as a simple partnership between the two firms. Citing Microsoft's terrible reputation and image alongside Apple's inability to penetrate the desktop market, Rob Enderle spells out how he believes both companies could thrive by working together. "What if Apple worked with Microsoft to make the iPod 'Plays for Sure'-compliant, and Microsoft worked with Apple to make the Mac OS a true peer platform to Windows? The end result would be more competition for both companies, and it probably would grow the overall markets as well and remove a lot of the foundation driving the litigation plaguing both firms." The columnist also mentions the growing threat of a Linux desktop, which could hit Apple hard should it see widespread adoption.

by MacNN Staff