An often overlooked chapter in Apple’s early history is that Bill Gates and Microsoft were the ones who helped develop the first applications for the original Macintosh in the 1980s. The relationship between Apple and Microsoft was, in a way, a symbiosis that eventually evolved into one of the fiercest rivalries in tech history. A similar dynamic is currently playing out in the Solana ecosystem: While Raydium (as a DEX) and Pump.fun (as a token launchpad) once together powered the "memecoin m...