Steve Jobs used to want a Sony laptop running OS X

Today, as we know, only Apple's manufactured Macs run the OS X operating system developed by the genuine. However, according to a new information revealed, this operating system may have added another partner, which is Sony's Vaio laptop line.

According to Nobuyuki Hayashi - a Japanese freelance writer - who has been tracking news about Apple for the past two decades - Apple and Sony have had negotiations to bring OS X to Sony's Vaio laptops. Hayashi quoted a former Sony chairman Kunitake Ando , recalling the 2001 meeting between Ando and Jobs in Hawaii. Jobs played golf with many of Sony's leaders and on that occasion, he held a Vaio in the running of Mac OS.

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It was an exception that Jobs reserved for Vaio. Speaking as an exception because when he returned to leadership at Apple in 1997, one of the first things that Steve Jobs did was to end all agreements between Apple and computer manufacturing partners running OS X. Jobs I don't want to develop a computer operating system model like Microsoft does with Windows, because he thinks it will ruin the Mac ecosystem.

However, according to the former Sony leader, Steve Jobs admires their Vaio laptops and " readily accepts an exception ". But Jobs's desire was not answered, because at the time, Sony's laptop sales were in a good growth phase. Negotiations about bringing Mac OS to Vaio laptop later did not bring any results.