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According to ex-Sony president, Jobs approached Sony about selling a Vaio laptop with OS X pre-installed in 2001 during a Sony executive retreat in Hawaii in 2001. “Steve Jobs and another Apple executive were waiting for us at the end of the golf course holding Vaio running Mac OS,” Ando said. But the Vaio team was opposed to the move, since the laptop was optimized for Windows, while at the time, OS X was just an also-ran. Now, of course, things are very different, with PC laptop sales decreasing at an alarming rate compared to Mac sales.
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Jobs wasn’t just impressed with Sony’s laptops. He also loved the CyberShot camera, so much so that he may have inspired Sony to create the first camera with built-in GPS, saying “if this thing had a built-in GPS, I can record everything that happens in my life.” Ando revealed that “this idea of built-in GPS for camera originated from Jobs.” Ando also says that Sony inspired Steve Jobs to launch his own line of Apple Stores. Sony was already in the retail space with its line of worldwide SonyStyle stores, and Steve wanted something similar, saying this is “exactly what we need.” Steve didn’t love everything about Sony, though. He thought the PlayStation Portable — which used UMD optical discs to store games and movies — was a joke. “Discs are so out-of-date,” he said, with characteristic frankness.
In 2005, Steve Jobs' announcement that Apple's computers would be moving from PowerPC to Intel surprised many. OS X had been living 'a secret double life' with Intel for five years, said Jobs, but according to a new report from Japan, that life almost included an even more shocking partner — Sony. 'Steve Jobs was willing to make an exception.' , who has covered Apple for over two decades, quotes ex-Sony president Kunitake Ando recalling a 2001 meeting between him and Jobs in Hawaii. After playing a round of golf with other Sony executives, says Ando, 'Steve Jobs and another Apple executive were waiting for us at the end of the golf course holding VAIO running Mac OS.' Jobs had shut down the Mac 'clone' business years earlier but, according to Ando, admired Sony's VAIO line so much he was 'willing to make an exception.'
The timing, however, was bad. Sales of the company's Windows-powered laptops had just begun taking off, and the negotiations to make Mac-compatible VAIO's ultimately came to nothing. As far-fetched as the story sounds, Jobs had a well-documented respect for Sony, and a good relationship with its executive team.
Ando's account of the 2001 meeting corroborates about the secrecy of the Intel team at Apple, which claimed that Apple's ex-SVP of software engineering Bertrand Serlet made the team 'go to Fry's and buy the top of the line, most expensive VAIO they have' to demonstrate the possibility of OS X on Sony hardware. Yesterday, rumors swirled that to a Japanese investment firm. The company acknowledged the rumors, but did not deny them directly.