You know you are in trouble when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has to tell you to calm down, but that is what happened when the Apple's profit Steve Jobs found out that the Imperium had bought his games outfit Bungee.
While Apple has largely ignored games, apparently Steve Jobs still has somewhat of a competitive streak when it comes to companies in his glorious sphere of influence.
Former Microsoft exec Ed Fries has told Develop how Steve Jobs threw his toys out of the pram when he heard that Bungie was being bought by Ballmer's software Imperium.
The Imperium turned Bungie from a high profile Mac developer into a studio that made Halo games specifically for Microsoft's Xbox console.
Fries said that Jobs phoned up Ballmer because he was so angry and apparently had a "few words" with him.
Ballmer was so shocked that someone had used that tone with him that he got Fries to call Jobs back to "calm him down about the whole thing."
While the incident is ancient history, it does somewhat fly in the face of what Jobs has said in the past about things that matter.
During his 2005 commencement speech at Stanford he said:
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life,” he said. “Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.”
Obviously Ballmer buying Bungee was more important than death.
As such, when one is gambling, one is playing with statistics and just because the stats could afford you a “Return on Investment” of, say, 2% or 15%, [… we at the Fruit & Nut Case will not move unless a minimum of 200% is on the table - we love table gymnastics especially those who are dying to offer their all at the slightest hint of associability, including “Presidents”] that might be good for the game of small numbers but it ain’t so for what, say, The Bible relates which is that, “If you are not with Me, you are against Me”. Zounds loigical, ain’t it, but not when you are founded on Glitz for then Grey is the tune and the tone. And The Unseen Reality agrees so too - for the mo.
When a person has physically departed, not only would he dearly hopes that there is life thereafter, he also hopes that his Fame, Fortune & Immortality is preserved. For what? Like “Life Insurance” [LI] once the insured is gone, he’s gone. [LI, of course, is another gambling trick of the Chosen Few, being a gamble about accumulating more than having to give out, but when the bookie gambles, that is the mother of all IOUs and this beastie then miraculously becomes all that is wicked.] For the individual, the reality of it all is that after death, everything is back to Square One. Should, say, Jesus Christ be real, which he is, who remembers Him other than one’s perception/concept of Him? Reality is only for the moment and not for one’s past or the future, oka accumulations/FFI and the danger about accumulations or the obstruction of flow/Flow, is that that is something you will have to take with you when the Mortal Coil is snipped.
As such, wishing that there is life after death is a double-edged sword, like anything which lacks Reality, being full of Reltivity. Anyone who is “against”, will know no right and those who are “for” will not be able to perceive any wrong, such is he who keeps ‘finking that he’s a saviour of sorts. Partial humans are really dumb-cum-stupid not because they are really so, but because they are truly blind to Reality. Balance ensures that before the moment of Reality, for every right there will be a wrong. Without a single exception or else all will be in harmony. In such a case, harmony only happens when all are faced with Reality. Balance comes through errors and those who fear errors are always making the same error over and over again.
So it was a humiliation to Steve personally - because he showed the game as a great grame for a Mac, & microsoft buying it was a direct slap in his face.
Macs Still trails behind in games mostly because of Apple's we-don't-care attitude toward gamers and consistantly being 3 generations behind in the GPU hardware.
Currently Asus offers the nvidia 360M GPU in their gaming laptops, while Apple is content to give you a weaker graphics chip - at almost twice the price!
Why buy 3rd rate graphics for twice the price & much less software to pick from ?