In the big Steve Jobs/Bill Gates interview a couple years back, I recall Steve saying that Apple is a software company and that the computer is the pretty box i

In the big Steve Jobs/Bill Gates interview a couple years back, I recall Steve saying that Apple is a software company and that the computer is the pretty box it comes in. Although they might require their own hardware, the hardware isn't all that different (from a functionality standpoint) from the hardware that other manufacturers were putting out. So I'm inclined to agree with Steve. Apple is a software company. The hardware is just a pretty box.