Clearly Steve Jobs had plans to install Apple's "Mac OS" on Sony's "VAIO"

ByLars Kristian Flem

Apple's former CEO, Steve Jobs, is Sony's co-ownerAkio MoritaAs there was a relationship beyond business, Apple and Sony were closely related. Among such two companies, "VAIO running on Mac OS"History of the plan was covered by Apple for 20 yearsShinba HayashiIt is spoken by Mr.

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Apple and Sony have been closely related, for example, the QuickTime team is Sony'sATRACBacked by the fact that the former designer of QuickTime participated directly in Sony's Cyber-shot project and that Apple had delegated design to Sony to advance PowerBook's release by 10 years. there is.

He is the former president of SonyKuniaki Ando"When Steve Jobs and executives were waiting for us with a VAIO running on Mac OS, we were about to finish around the golf round in Hawaii at the winter vacation in 2001," It is. Since 2001 is the year when OS X was released, Mr. Ando presumes "It might have been the origin of the Intel version of Mac OS X."

ByAnthony Sigalas

However, VAIO completed optimization as a Windows-based laptop computer and started selling, and I was just getting familiarity. It was a bad timing for Sony and most of the VAIO team opposed it, so the negotiation plan to realize Mr. Jobs' Mac OS compatible VAIO was never eventually realized.