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: GamePolitics.comEd Fries: Apple's Steve Jobs Was 'Furious' About Bungie Purchase
By james_fudge
An upcoming interview with Ed Fries (who you may know better as the former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft) reveals that Apple CEO Steve Jobs was livid when Bungie Software was purchased by Microsoft. In a preview of the interview to appear soon in Develop Magazine, Fries said that the Apple CEO was furious when Microsoft bought Bungie and gained exclusive rights to the then-unknown shooter Halo.
"As soon as we announced we bought Bungie, Steve Jobs called,' Fries said. "He was mad at [Microsoft CEO Steve] Ballmer and phoned him up and was angry because we'd just bought the premier Mac game developer and made them an Xbox developer."
Fries went on to say that he was the one charged with placating Jobs: Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).
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