Dear Apple: Once upon a time, your products were brutally expensive and while your engineering choices were sound in isolation, they were so idiosyncratic that

Dear Apple: Once upon a time, your products were brutally expensive and while your engineering choices were sound in isolation, they were so idiosyncratic that no industry-standard accessories or peripherals were compatible with your hardware. Note of shame: I once paid $3,000 for an 80MB hard drive with your logo on it. Developing for your platform was a monumental challenge. Every tool cost money and I remember having to pay actual money to obtain xerographed development notes from your developer connection or whatever it was called. I even purchased the worst product you ever made, a 1x CD-ROM player that was actually a rebranded Phillips reject. One thing led to another and it wasn't long before your stock cost a few dollars and Sun Microsystems was thinking of buying you. Then everything changed. I don't miss that incarnation of you a bit.