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		spitfire on Aug 18, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It’s Official: HP Kills Off webOS Phones and the T... Steve Jobs got burnt badly by the enterprise market with NeXT. Look up enterprise object framework sometime. Apple is clearly going after the enterprise market on their terms, and their terms alone.

gamble on Aug 19, 2011 [–]

Exactly. Apple can't go after the enterprise market in the way Microsoft or Oracle do without sacrificing the soul of the company. It's the converse of the reason that Microsoft does so poorly in the new consumer electronics markets.

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