[aruanan]

Apple created a market for its own hardware.

And that's why it's been so good.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And that's why it's been so good.

That's fine, but without the original IBM computer designed with off-the-shelf components and its operating system DOS/Windows, computers would still be extremely expensive and far less prevalent.

Without Windows, the cheap hardware to run Linux and other open source OSs would never have happened.