Phil Cook wrote:
> and yet prior to Windows 95 there were quite the number of competing OSs.

Afterwards, too. Just not on the same hardware. And not really offering 
a whole lot more.

>> Apple requires you to buy new hardware, so it's not purely a software 
>> decision.
> 
> Yet everyone loves their monopolistic ways :-)

And the software is subsidized by the hardware, which *would* be 
monopolistic if Apple split into two companies. And it *still* costs 
roughly the same for Apple software as MS software, in spite of the subsidy.

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