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Originally Posted by leebase
What you bring up as a difference is actually an example of how they are the same. Apple has to attract content and apps to it's platform. It's essential. If Apple truly does drive too many of such businesses away from it's platform, the platform will fail.
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How is that different from Microsoft?
Look at personal computers: if you ask people why they don't buy a Mac, they'll tell you either "it's too expensive" or "it doesn't run the programs I want." Expense is a rather subjective thing, and rather hard to quantify. But not running the programs you want is pretty solid. Microsoft has done a better job of attracting developers to Windows than Apple has done for the Macintosh OS, so people buy Windows machines.
Any developer or vendor of an operating system needs to have programs and content for it. Apple does. Microsoft does. The Linux people do. There is no difference between them. My desktop computer is just as much a "mall" as my netbook, which is just as much so as an iPad.
Of course, Microsoft is probably
kicking themselves for not thinking to collect money for every sale made on their Windows platform. Think of how much money they could have had!
...Think of how badly it would have sucked to be us.