[Blue Highway]

All Apple markets is snob appeal. Their equipment is no better than a PC; they just charge a huge premium for their closed hardware system.

I agree with your entire post. I have stated several times that Apple by nature has this proprietary mindset. When you say closed hardware system I would call that proprietary. The Apple cult will disagree about your statement and mine.

[Sudetenland]

Precisely...and that proprietary system...or the decision to make it so is what kept Apple from becoming the dominant PC system. Had they opted for an open architecture, allowing anyone to build a clone, PC's would just be a footnote in computer history (probably).

Greed became Steve Jobs' downfall if a billionaire can be said to have had a downfall:).