The PC was only a success for the market as a whole. The setters of the standards did not profit from it at all and even went (close to) bankruptcy because of i

The PC was only a success for the market as a whole. The setters of the standards did not profit from it at all and even went (close to) bankruptcy because of it. Contrast this closed hw architectures like Nintendo and Apple produce. No consumer freedom but incredible profit margins. Note that modern macs are in fact PC's with just minor modifications so they profit from the PC economies of scale while still locking their customers into their hardware platform.