Of course it has. It hasn’t served their users well because we aren’t in enterprise land. Which is why jailbreaking happens. Which is why people that based their businesses on Apple products are upset at the policies Apple has adopted. Because not Apple has locked them in to the upgrade or die cycle that will cost tens of thousands in a lump sum to escape.
Now Apple is soldering ram to their motherboards. Again, no choice. Nect, the Powermac is eliminated. The coffer warmer has cost many people thousands of dollaes to keep their connected and required external hardware useable. If you are happy with it, go with it. But the whole point is that lots of people aren’t and that upsets the Apple fringe to ludicrus degrees. It’s Stalinist.
Does a company really get to that level by not serving the needs of their customers?
I get you want to customize your phone and don't care for Apple's model, but the vast majority of the customer base for phones is not someone with a technical background who could attempt it.
Also note, the number of jailbroken iPhones goes down each year. Maybe this is due to jail breaks not adding as much value as the novelty of sticking it to the man (Apple in this case). Or maybe Apple does listen to the jailbreak community and rolls in changes to satisfy their desires, too.
Apple causes market friction since they are early adopters of new directions in technology. They dropped the floppy disc first, the parallel port first, adopted USB keyboards and mice first, adopted thunderbolt ports first, moved to SDD only systems, etc. They were trashed for those moves, too. Now you would be hard pressed to fins a PC that is not "legacy free".
PowerMac???? PowerMac? POWERMAC???? What time warp do you occupy, Norm? The PowerMac was discontinued in 2006, almost NINE YEARS AGO! Sheesh! YOU ARE DELUSIONAL! You are living in a reality distortion bubble of your own making.
The coffer warmer has cost many people thousands of dollaes to keep their connected and required external hardware useable.
What? What in the hell are you blithering about? Coffer warmer? You're foaming at the mouth with blather.
My business is to KEEP computers working and connected and i make one hell of a lot more money from keeping WINDOWS machines working and connected than I ever have made on keeping Mac machines working and connected on a per machine basis. Macs are far less expensive to keep working than are Windows Machines.
The truth is that the vast majority of people who have switched from Windows to Macs are euphoric about switching. They could not be happier to get rid of Windows hell.