Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-15 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 3:13 AM, mike  wrote:

> How?
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM, db  wrote:
>
> > Now Apple has MS over a barrel.
>

As far as I can tell just as part of containerized pun fest.

Why does M$ pay in buckets in stead of money?
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Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-15 Thread mike
How?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:38 PM, db  wrote:

> Now Apple has MS over a barrel.
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Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar

On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Jeff Wright wrote:

Give it a few minutes.  Tom will be along to remind us that MS is a
monopolist.


A has-been monopolist.




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Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread Jeff Wright
> Great justice in that.
> 
> In the 90's MS extorted from Apple the copy write privilege to  sell
> Win95 by threat of dropping Office for the Mac.  Now Apple has MS over a
> barrel.
> 
> I say go fish!

Funny that, even though I have no idea to what exactly you reference above.

Give it a few minutes.  Tom will be along to remind us that MS is a
monopolist.


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Re: [CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread db
Great justice in that. 

In the 90's MS extorted from Apple the copy write privilege to  sell 
Win95 by threat of dropping Office for the Mac.  Now Apple has MS over a 
barrel.   


I say go fish!

db

TPiwowar wrote:
Reports that M$ is offering "buckets of money" to Apple developers to 
port their Apps to the Zune HD...

http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/zune_apps

Has anyone seen any?


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[CGUYS] M$ Offers to Pay "Buckets" for Zune Apps

2009-08-14 Thread TPiwowar
Reports that M$ is offering "buckets of money" to Apple developers to  
port their Apps to the Zune HD...

http://daringfireball.net/2009/08/zune_apps

Has anyone seen any?


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