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Originally Posted by theducks
They invented the Proprietary everything model 
IMHO the 1 big thing that made the IBM PC (4.7 MHz 8086) great, was it's open architecture . They tried to fix that sales problem with the PS-2 micro-channel  Thankfully, the buyers resisted  |
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Originally Posted by guyanonymous
Oh - and they also killed hardware choice (though this provides greater stability for an OS that only has to deal with 15 hardware configs instead of 20000) and refined vendor lock-in better than any computer company before them!
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apple is truly both a hardware and software company and for very good reason. if you don't think this has a direct impact on why their computers have the highest user satisfaction of any PC manufacturer, you should definitely take another look.
two quotes come to mind:
first from the computer pioneer Alan Kay that Steve Jobs likes to bring up every once and a while: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. "
secondly, this comes to mind with apple's take on hardware. this is from steve jobs in 1994: "The problem is, in hardware you can't build a computer that's twice as good as anyone else's anymore. Too many people know how to do it. You're lucky if you can do one that's one and a third times better or one and a half times better. And then it's only six months before everybody else catches up. But you can do it in software."