By John Gruber
For 138 years Lady Liberty watched over us — now it’s time to return the favor.
Steven Levy tells the tale of the HP-Apple iPod “alliance”:
In short, Fiorina’s “good friend” Steve Jobs blithely mugged her and HP’s shareholders. By getting Fiorina to adopt the iPod as HP’s music player, Jobs had effectively gotten his software installed on millions of computers for free, stifled his main competitor, and gotten a company that prided itself on invention to declare that Apple was a superior inventor. And he lost nothing, except the few minutes it took him to call Carly Fiorina and say he was sorry she got canned.
★ Monday, 12 October 2015