You’re ignoring the fact that de-facto standards rule the PC world. Technical standards often lag de-facto standards by 2-5 (or more) years. What works in the market becomes the standard.
That is what you get with an OS and vendor that encourages long-term support and promises decades or more of support. It is what gives Apple the ability to actually survive.
How many Macs do you think they’d sell right now if they had to set up their own foundry to make PowerPC chips (which IBM dropped because there just wasn’t a large enough customer base for them)? There’s a reason Apple shifted to using standard PC hardware - it was either switch to the de-facto standards of the PC/Windows hardware world or die.
And IMHO as long as Apple continues to eschew long-term support and backwards compatibility (measured in decades, not 4-5 years) they’ll never gain more than the 3-4% market share they have now. The truth is that companies spend a few hundred dollars on their hardware, and tens of thousands of dollars on their software. Supporting that software long-term is where the value is.
Microsoft will continue to totally dominate the PC world as long as they do not lose sight of that. Being able to run a 20 year old program on the latest OS - including hardware access - is a huge benefit and massive advantage.
I think your last post was a bit premature.
See the post above it. Dayglored made the case already for why it is not JUST the open standards for which Apple can benefit. He listed many other very good reasons.