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> But lumber and screws and paint are all widely available commodities And phones using ARM chips are sold by hundreds of manufactures with different feature s

> But lumber and screws and paint are all widely available commodities And phones using ARM chips are sold by hundreds of manufactures with different feature sets. > Do you think Tesla should be able to prohibit anyone from taking the battery out of a Tesla and using it in some other car or for some other purpose? If you can take an iOS image you download to your computer (and you can with iTunes) and make it work without Apple custom hardware go for it. Or do you think that Apple should be forced to support third party hardware? What if I want to run Teslas infotainment on my Honda civic? Should Tesla be forced to do it? > Buying an integrated product isn't the same thing as buying a product because it's integrated. By definition if they want any of the parts that isn't available separately, they have to buy the whole thing. So again should Apple have been forced to make the iMac modular enough so you could rip out the PPC and put in an x86 chip so you could run Windows because you preferred Windows, but you like the Bondi Blue iMac? Should Apple be forced to sell their custom chips to other manufacturers? What if I just want the T1 security chip in my Android Blu R1 HD I bought from Amazon, should Apple be forced to sell it to you separately? > And as shitty as MacOS Classic was, it wasn't as shitty as Windows ME Did you ever deal with manually allocating memory for applications? The cooperative multitasking that caused all applications to stop when you clicked on a menu? > How does that affect the state of their integrated product just before the Intel switch when they didn't have a competitive PowerPC processor? The PPC was behind x86 from the time Jobs came back until 2005, yet it still sold well enough to represent half of Apple’s revenue.

AnthonyMouse 4y ago
> And phones using ARM chips are sold by hundreds of manufactures with different feature sets. You were just making the argument that the hardware from Samsung et al isn't as good. > If you can take an iOS image you download to your computer (and you can with iTunes) and make it work without Apple custom hardware go for it. Or do you think that Apple should be forced to support third party hardware? It's not a question of forcing them to. Suppose Samsung was willing to do the work to get iOS running on their devices. Apple not only won't help, they'll sue them, to keep the OS tied to their own hardware. > What if I want to run Teslas infotainment on my Honda civic? Should Tesla be forced to do it? They shouldn't interfere with your attempt. > Should Apple be forced to sell their custom chips to other manufacturers? What if I just want the T1 security chip in my Android Blu R1 HD I bought from Amazon, should Apple be forced to sell it to you separately? Why not? If they're the only supplier of something then they should sell it to anyone who wants to buy it. > Did you ever deal with manually allocating memory for applications? The cooperative multitasking that caused all applications to stop when you clicked on a menu? Did you ever deal with the infamous instability of DOS-based Windows, complete with a total lack of security as the biggest target for viruses because of the larger user base? > The PPC was behind x86 from the time Jobs came back until 2005, yet it still sold well enough to represent half of Apple’s revenue. 2005 was pre-iPhone, so of course it was a large percentage of their revenue. But their total revenue in 2004 was lower than it was in 1996 -- and in 1996 there wasn't even an iPod.

AnthonyMouse 4y ago

> And phones using ARM chips are sold by hundreds of manufactures with different feature sets. You were just making the argument that the hardware from Samsung et al isn't as good. > If you can take an iOS image you download to your computer (and you can with iTunes) and make it work without Apple custom hardware go for it. Or do you think that Apple should be forced to support third party hardware? It's not a question of forcing them to. Suppose Samsung was willing to do the work to get iOS running on their devices. Apple not only won't help, they'll sue them, to keep the OS tied to their own hardware. > What if I want to run Teslas infotainment on my Honda civic? Should Tesla be forced to do it? They shouldn't interfere with your attempt. > Should Apple be forced to sell their custom chips to other manufacturers? What if I just want the T1 security chip in my Android Blu R1 HD I bought from Amazon, should Apple be forced to sell it to you separately? Why not? If they're the only supplier of something then they should sell it to anyone who wants to buy it. > Did you ever deal with manually allocating memory for applications? The cooperative multitasking that caused all applications to stop when you clicked on a menu? Did you ever deal with the infamous instability of DOS-based Windows, complete with a total lack of security as the biggest target for viruses because of the larger user base? > The PPC was behind x86 from the time Jobs came back until 2005, yet it still sold well enough to represent half of Apple’s revenue. 2005 was pre-iPhone, so of course it was a large percentage of their revenue. But their total revenue in 2004 was lower than it was in 1996 -- and in 1996 there wasn't even an iPod.