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This comment is pretty ignorant of the history of computing. Apple tried to allow competition in their ecosystem. And all that happened is that vendors like Po
by threeseed 3y ago
This comment is pretty ignorant of the history of computing.
Apple tried to allow competition in their ecosystem. And all that happened is that vendors like Power Computing went straight for Apple's most profitable markets and nearly bankrupted the company.
The only reason Apple is successful is because people like the console-esque experience of having one vendor do everything.
- asadotzler 3y agoYou cannot make that final claim because there are plenty of alternative scenarios never tried that could have allowed Apple to be successful by other means. Also, your 90s era anecdote is mostly meaningless today, certainly not demonstrative that licensing couldn't work, just that Apple failed to make it work with their one potentially poor attempt 30 years ago.