![]() ![]() ![]() "Why don’t you license the Mac OS?"ĭell told Jobs that he would pay a license fee for every PC sold with Mac OS, but Jobs responded that such a scheme would undermine Apple’s own sales due to the reduced price of PCs. "He said, look at this – we’ve got this Dell desktop and it’s running Mac OS," Dell told CNET. When Jobs rejoined Apple in 1997, when it acquired Next, he offered Dell a license for Mac OS, saying that he could give PC users a choice between Apple’s software or Microsoft’s software. However, Dell told Jobs that there were no applications for it and zero consumer interest, the CEO recalled in his new book Play Nice But Win. Jobs tried several times to convince Dell to use the Next operating system on PCs, arguing that it was better that Microsoft’s Windows and could undermine Unix. ![]()
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