By the way, you seem to have taken my comments personally. Do you work for Apple or have some emotional connection to them? Apple has shown a distinct preference for closed systems since its inception. Remember how they killed their own clone market? Apple sells hardware...the future is software. If you get your software in every ecosystem and dominate...you win.
No, I didn't. I don't know you, don't care and speak only to the facts. Any emotion you think you read into this is your own projection. This is my only comment about you. Now and ever. Do you work for Apple or have some emotional connection to them? This? Again? WTF? OK, Yes, I am Steve Jobs.... uh, uhm... Sister. Yeah, that's it. I am Steve Jobs' sister. Make any difference?
Oh, emotions again... uhm... "hi". That's about the level I can muster on this tangent. Apple has shown a distinct preference for closed systems since its inception.
Apple? Closed? Man bites dog. That is hardly news or post worthy. And who cares? I prefer it that way. I guess others prefer viruses and spyware in their unregulated wild apps. That's the only thing that IS closed. What Apps they allow on the App store. The core OS is no more closed than any other and is based on FreeBSD.
So what other closed could you mean?
Remember how they killed their own clone market?
What is this? "johhny this is your life"??
They didn't KILL their "own" clone market they SUED THE FRAK out of pirates and thieves and WON. THEN and now again with PissStar.
Apple sells hardware...the future is software.
Oh this isn't even funny. Apple is NOT a hardware vendor. Apple is a PRODUCT creator. They make wholistic complete and integrated solutions which WORK without the problems of the rest of the world who makes junk FOR others or is stuck with trying to make some generic software run on the stuff they make.
This is why they can, do and will MAKE MORE MONEY. Which is all anyone who invests in them should care about and all anyone who wants a seemlessly working product should know.
If you get your software in every ecosystem and dominate...you win.
Then, I guess that's why you made this a "10 year" thing.
Well, if any of us are around in 10 years and still care, I'll see ya then.
Is Apple in a far better position now or when they licensed their OS? I really don’t think the data backs up the position that Apple should license their software. It takes a lot of OS X license to equal one MBP.