Originally Posted by Steve B
Apple make significantly less money on software than they do on hardware though, so there's absolutely no benefit in opening up their operating system.
MS don't make the hardware though, so don't have much control over the quality of components put into people's systems.
Agreed to some extent. The drivers will be higher quality, yes, but that doesn't mean they'll be better drivers. Video drivers for Windows machines are much more well developed, I suppose this could be to do with Direct X but I don't know much about that.
Do you think you prefer Apple running a very tight ship with lots of control?
I really fail to see how this is pertinant to the original idea that it would be anti-competitive to enforce, needlessly your hardware for the OS.
I'm also guessing that your not an analyist. Apple's share inflation of late is largely due to iPod and iPhone, the hardware sales of apple computers is really little. Given that by far the biggest players in this game are software houses its interesting that apple insist on not directly competing with MS.
And it might not be because its an inferior product, it might simply be a case of rather going for the little niches.
Either way, my original comments are from a developer, not a users, point of view about the company. They really don't offer anything like as much as any other vendor out there. They also seam to play dog in a manger like sun used to during the late 90s....... But this is way off.