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"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.

Oh yeah, they opened up the architecture to be able to run non-Mac OSes. Wonder why they had to do that? Oh yeah, because they had a 7% marketshare and falling. Of course you can't buy a Mac with an OS not from Apple. Still a clean monopoly on the OS, and they never would have opened up the architecture if they had won the war with Windows.

Really? Motorola makes the chips for them, who makes the computers? Where are the Mac cloans if there's "more than one"? They STILL have a monopoly on the hardware.

Crap architecture that Mac had to embrace to grab some marketshare. Not that it matters, it's a red herring you're raising to distract from the FACT that Mac was targeting a dual monopoly.

I didn't say they aren't a business Hal, I said their "free" video editing software isn't free. Not saying that's a bad or a good thing, just a TRUE thing. No bundled software is free, your throwing red herring at this is telling. As does your need to use the Wintel shorthand and completely ignore AMD and other competitors. Drop the red herrings Hal, I've come to expect better from you.