Microsoft And Apple’s Secret Bungie Deal Revealed

Remember Bungie before they were bought out by Microsoft; they were a Mac developer.

Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Bungie, Apple’s Steve Jobs was “furious”.

Former Xbox boss, Ed Fries has revealed to Develop how he had to personally broker a deal with the fuming Apple boss.

“As soon as we announced we bought Bungie, Steve Jobs called,” Fries told Develop. “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.”

In order to handle the situation, the Xbox co-creator had help Bungie’s former president setup an entire company with the sole purpose of porting Windows hits to Mac.

“So, during the day, I got an email from Steve Ballmer asking me to phone Steve Jobs and calm him down about the whole thing,” he said.

“Anyway, we did this deal with Apple where we’d port some PC games to the Macintosh and help Peter Tamte create this company to do it, and I had to go to a Mac developer conference and get on stage and talk about this whole new partnership. It was a pretty strange time.”

Yup, don’t mess with Steve Jobs.

via CVG