drakester said:
lol okay first of all, rolls-royce doesnt own jack, especially not 5% of the worlds car market, rolls itself is owned by bmw, and bently is owned by vw. and apple isnt going anywhere anytime soon, one of microsoft's daughter companies owns 34% of apple's shares...ill try to find the link and post it.. and big bill sinks more and more cash into apple to keep it alive, he adds to the development of the mac os, and much much more that the naked mac user eye wont pick up. mac and pc users have more in common than u think.. but the moral of the story is big bill pretty much controls the entire computer market and influences the way computing will affect our lives forever
not to question your information, but frankly you're wrong.
microsoft baught shares of apple around 1995 or so. apple baught it back in 1997. but nice try, get with the times.... no daughter company...no secret conspiricy... no aliens working for apple... go get a job for the enquirer lol... and by the way...it was no where NEAR 35%.... no one owns that much of apple. i believe even steve jobs doesnt own that large of a portion of apple...
"big bill" doesnt sink ANY cash into keeping apple alive.... if "big bill" had anything to do with apple, he would have the systems running winxp, or having apples dev. team fix his longhorn os, so it doesnt suck so much when they do decide to release it....
and if hes spending money anywhere, it should be to keep his own employees from releasing longhorn all over the internet 5 years before its release date... lol what a joke of a company
whether rolls-royce owns 50% of the car market, or 1%, the point is that they are a car built for the elite few who can afford them, and they will not go out of business any time in the near future.... im glad to see you missed the whole point of that statement.
there is no "trying" to keep apple alive... apple is flourising on its own, it doesnt need the help of a billionare 44x over to keep it going... people have been using apples innovations for a long time now (dell with its new iPod wannabe, windows xp with its new colorful windows, to try to accomplish what apple did with aqua interface.. it will never end).... and they will continue to be at the forefront of industry development.
"big bill" controls nothing... his money is tied up in stocks..he cant get to it unless he sold microsoft...and doing so would drop the price of his stock while he sold it...
"big bill" owns a majority of microsoft...that i will agree to
"big bill" can influence a majority of the computer industry due to his near monopoly on OS's around the world... that i will agree to
"big bill" can offer up suggestions to the development team at microsoft, considering he is the CEO.
but "big bill" doesnt CONTROL anything....
but anyway.... im glad you have your facts straight... go argue somewhere else
**edit** sorry murlyn
... i forgot..i dont even know what you took out lol.. and 140 million is like pocket change to him
140 million is .003% of his total worth. my total worth (being that im a college student) is probably like 10-15,000 max. $15000 X .003 = $45.65... pfft.. i would give apple $46 bucks if it keeps me out of a lawsuit, and made me look good to the majority of people
