If Apple would license their OS to computer manufactuers and get the prices down, they would slaughter M-soft's OS market share.
I was reading recently about PC makers and market share.
The interesting thing was Mac made as much as the major PC makers (HP and Dell) with considerably less, a whole lot less, market share.
If, for example, you buy something online from Dell, you play hell getting off their site without a dozen opportunities to add-on and upgrade. They only make a decent profit on the top 10 percent or so of sales.
Mac says to heck with the low end, has less volume, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution and service worries - and makes the same bucks.
So.. this is the long way to say in reply to your point, that perhaps Apple does not see the same pressure to dominate in market share. Or at least, perhaps again, they think differently.
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thanks for your reply.