How many companies make OSes that run on Macs? How many make motherboards that can run the OS? Dual monopoly no matter how you slice it. Tell AMD about Intel's harware monopoly.
Everything Mac includes with the OS, just like everything MS includes with the OS, cost the purchaser of the OS money. they just don't charge you as seperate line items, but the cost of development was in the budget for making the OS and that cost is figured into the sales price and passed on to the purchaser. Anybody claiming any pre-bundled software is "free" needs to take some business classes, regardless of who the software comes from.
"How many companies make OSes that run on Macs?" Apple, Linux and Microsoft, to name a few.
"How many make motherboards that can run the OS?"
More than one.
"Dual monopoly no matter how you slice it. Tell AMD about Intel's harware monopoly."
x86 is a crap architecture. Even Intel knows it.
"Anybody claiming any pre-bundled software is "free" needs to take some business classes, regardless of who the software comes from."
Apple is in business to make a profit, but it's still a better value for the customer than Wintel products.