[The_Victor]

Apple build finished products, not just software. And they implement a Stalinistic control over those products; hardware, software, and content. If Microsoft tries to implement a similar level of control they'll be back in anti-trust court for monopolistic business practices in a heartbeat.

[tacticalogic]

Apple build finished products, not just software. And they implement a Stalinistic control over those products; hardware, software, and content. If Microsoft tries to implement a similar level of control they'll be back in anti-trust court for monopolistic business practices in a heartbeat.

I've seen accolades about Apples reliability from doing this, and asked if anyone thought the industry would be better off today if Microsoft had adopted that same model early on, instead of writing the OS to be as hardware agnostic as possible and letting the hardware industry develop around it.

So far no one will say they think it would.