All else aside, this: > When Apple was a niche PC maker, it needed the web as a way to help potential customers de-risk the purchase of luxury computers. While

All else aside, this: > When Apple was a niche PC maker, it needed the web as a way to help potential customers de-risk the purchase of luxury computers. While it enjoyed outsized influence, the Mac never had enough share to create a sufficiently large software ecosystem w/o the web. Just doesn’t track to me. The mac was a fairly popular native platform. Many early ios developers started out as mac developers. Macs were extremely viable for most professional users without the web.