[quote=briansd1][quote=flu] But you should know that apple’s history is to make things proprietary and incompatible so that existing customers are locked in…That is, until they start losing market share.[/quote]

Makes perfect business sense… not so consumer friendly, but it makes perfect business sense.

You maximize the profits from the desirability of your products, then you switch plan when market share declines.[/quote]

Except if you follow apple’s history… Like what they tried to do the first time around with macs (in which you couldn’t get standard PC peripherals to work on a mac since they made macs all scsi), you would see that it a was a strategy that backfired.