iOS and Mac OS X are operating systems that run exclusively on Apple products, but at one point Steve Jobs wanted to license its operating system to Compaq, the largest PC manufacturer at the time. Everything happened in 1999, when Steve Jobs had just returned to the management of Apple, a company that he would later save from bankruptcy, but without the help of Compaq. Of course, the idea was never implemented because Compaq didn't want to give up on Microsoft and Steve Jobs wasn't 100% sure if he wanted to license his operating system.
After we finished with the amenities and reminiscences, we got to the purpose of the meeting. Steve wanted Compaq to offer the Apple operating system on its PC line, adding to the Microsoft OS that had always been our sole OS. At the time, Compaq was the world's largest manufacturer of PCs. Our adopting the Apple OS would be seen as a feather in Apple's cap (and a pretty visible slap at Microsoft). The catching up with Steve was fun, the food was great, but the OS idea never gained traction. Upon further analysis, it didn't make sense for either Compaq or Apple. Compaq wasn't about to declare war on Microsoft, our partner from our birth in 1982, and Steve had second thoughts about licensing their crown jewels.
If this licensing had taken place, then probably now Windows would not have been the most used operating system in the world, or even if it had been, the difference between its market share and that of Mac OS X would have been much larger. little Of course, Macs would have cost less, would have been manufactured by more manufacturers and everything would have been extremely different and perhaps better for users. However, things are not like that now, Apple sells fewer Macs than all PC manufacturers combined and OS X has a small market share, but in a few decades things could change.
