Exactly. Microsofts obvious, deliberate and well executed attempts to strangle Apple by cutting off the developer pool they need to sell their live-style gizmos

Exactly. Microsofts obvious, deliberate and well executed attempts to strangle Apple by cutting off the developer pool they need to sell their live-style gizmos coupled with Apple management's apparent obliviousness that this is any threat at all (otherwise they would not impose additional unforced deterioration on their own developer system on top of whatever Microsoft is chipping away) makes one kinda wonder what's wrong with shareholder capitalism.