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Originally Posted by daffy4u
To me the quote indicated that the market would be much smaller if Apple hadn't opened up to Windows but Apple would still be number 1 or 2 but less dominant than they are. I was saying that if they hadn't opened to Windows I don't think they would be number 1 or 2. If owning an iPod required owning a Mac, I don't think iPods are important enough to cause someone to buy a Mac, so Apple would have sold far fewer iPods.
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I owned an iPod back when they only worked with Macs (i.e. the original 5GB iPod). I didn't rush out and buy a Mac, but instead found software that would let me use it in Window (xPlay, I think it was called).
Then again, many years later we have become a Mac household, so maybe the effect was just delayed
