On August 3rd, 1997, Microsoft buys $150 million worth of shares of financially troubled Apple Computer, thus saving the company and helping it take off into the computer superpower it is today.The popular commercials featuring John Hodgeman as a PC and Justin Long as a mac were a bit different then.
"Hi, I'm a Mac."
"And I'm a PC"
"PC, I need to ask you a favor."
"What is it, Mac?"
"Well, since our elitist company model didn't quite coincide with the needs of every day computer users, our company has hit some serious finical troubles. Can you buy some of our stock?"
"Well, I guess I can, Mac, but I can't buy too much because the FTC will come down hard on me. But, if I only buy 150 million, and we'll set it up so that you're the 'cool people' computer company and sell over-priced, dumbed-down models to artistic blow hards and general wine-sipping assholes, we'll say that we're competing with each other!"
"Great! The transmission in my Jetta went out. This is really gonna help my Ikea addiction as well."
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I have a Mac...and, it's clearly better. (if you're reading this on a PC you can turn of your virus scanner...mac's don't have them)
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