Seems like I remember the main reason Macs survived as a product at all was because you needed one to develop for iOS. That may be an exaggeration but there certainly was a time when Macs were few and far between outside of creative shops. Certainly they were almost unseen in the corporate world, where now they are fairly common at least in laptops.

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pjmlp 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Macs survived because Apple got a cash injection, survived long enough to come out with colorful iMacs with an hockey puck mouse, still running on Mac OS 8, and the iPod.

Requiring one for doing iOS development they were already back into the green.

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raw_anon_1111 an hour ago | parent [-]

It’s a myth that the “cash injection” from Microsoft saved Apple.

Microsoft gave Apple $250 million. The next quarter Apple turned around and spent $100 million on PowerComputing’s Mac assets.

Apple lost over a billion more before it became profitable. The $150 Net wouldn’t have been make or break.

Now Microsoft promising to keep Office on the Mac was a big deal

	▲	pjmlp 5 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		One way or the other, it was a cash injection from Microsoft, after all who paid the salaries from Office developers? Also you're forgetting the part that those announcements gave Apple a good marketing for additional credit from banks.