Office for iOS may be coming, but does it really matter?
Let's turn back the clock to Macworld Expo Boston, 1997.
Not literally: It wouldn't really serve any purpose and it would definitely take too long. Particularly if it's an analog clock.
But go back and watch the now-infamous Steve Jobs keynote (YouTube warning), and any number of things will jump out at you as ironic. For starters, you’ll see Steve Jobs talk about how great it was that Apple and Microsoft had just committed to cross-licensing their patents. Why was this great, according to the man who would a little over ten years later pledge to wage "thermonuclear war" against Android?
Steve Jobs pulls a Lando Calrissian on the 1997 Macworld audience, announcing a deal with Microsoft.
"Relationships that are destructive don't help anybody in this industry," Jobs said. "I'm extremely proud of these companies that they have resolved these differences in a very, very professional way."
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