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I'm not a computer person but have a long memory. Back in the early days of PC's- ie around the mid 80's . While Apple was there first with the Apple II it was the IBM PC running MS-Dos that became the industry standard. Why ... simple.... because it was an open system with open architecture. Today I think that Apple accounts for only about 5% of all PC'S. Well Apple got there first again with the iphone and the ipad but again they are a closed system and they obviously have not learned from their previous mistake and don't wish to remember history(see George Santayana). Other people have come out with competing products that are open and just as good and ultimately Apple will be relegated to the same role that they play in the PC Market. It is greed-fueled by stupidity- that drives Jobs and his minions and it will come back to bite them rest assured. As another example look at todays NY Times look at Apple's response(or lack of) to workers being poisoned by chemicals being used in one of their assembly plants.
I have never owned and have no intention of ever owning an Apple product. Everything I need is done by other manufacturers.
One last note some people will say that kindle is a closed system. In a sense yes. but they freely distribute the software that allows people to read on any of a multitude of devices. Furthermore, they in no way are against other publishers (drm'd and not) using the kindle(mobi) product. It is analogous in my mind to what Phillips NV did after they invented the tape cassette. No royalties and it quickly became the industry standard
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