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Originally Posted by CubicleGeek
I've never agreed with Apple's closed nature approach to their intellectual property. That killed them in the PC battle way back vs. IBM & IBM-compatible clones despite having a larger initial install base and it killed them with IEEE1394 (i.e Firewire) with USB now really leading the market, despite the former being a better technology IMO. They just have such a superior product and superior marketing for the "i" series product line that they can more or less do anything they want. Because despite what they do, people will keep buying their products.
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Apple is, and always will be, a hardware company first. They don't seem interested in making money from software.