Very few people bought Windows separately, its price was bundled with the hardware sale just like it is with iOS. This is a completely moot point. You could tr

Very few people bought Windows separately, its price was bundled with the hardware sale just like it is with iOS. This is a completely moot point. You could try to argue that Apple give more value by supporting longer, but then again you would be completely wrong (some hardware manufacturer are not super good at supporting their stuff for the very long term, but windows in itself has a support timeline way beyond anything Apple ever did...)