>Gruber thinks competing with the iPhone is "a dick move"? That seems an odd opinion, yet boldly stated as if it was normal.
Well they entered the phone business licensing their software for zero dollars. It's a fairly common thing that software companies do - Sun dumped a ton of money into OpenOffice just to be a pain in the ass to Microsoft, Microsoft keeps trying to do search and maps for god knows what reason when it isn't making them money.
If the software industry were more mature they wouldn't rise to the press's baiting about "killing" each other and just put resources into their core products and make those great.
> Sun dumped a ton of money into OpenOffice just to be a pain in the ass to Microsoft
No, that was a defensive move to prevent Microsoft from completely taking over the software industry which would've made them irrelevant. You also forgot about Java, which original was targeted at consumers as a way to have multi-platform apps that will make the OS irrelevant.
Well they entered the phone business licensing their software for zero dollars. It's a fairly common thing that software companies do - Sun dumped a ton of money into OpenOffice just to be a pain in the ass to Microsoft, Microsoft keeps trying to do search and maps for god knows what reason when it isn't making them money.
If the software industry were more mature they wouldn't rise to the press's baiting about "killing" each other and just put resources into their core products and make those great.