No, cause Apple is more than an OS company. They make the hardware to support the software. Like, their new thing is being the digital hub. Pentium 4 is trying to copy Apple with "The center of your digital world" if you haven't noticed.
Anyway, they started by making FireWire ports standard on all Macs, and release iMovie, so consumers can edit DV movies. Then they released CD-RWs standard and released iTunes so consumers can burn their own CDs... EASILY (Not common among PC users). Then they released the SuperDrive, and released iDVD so you can make your own DVD movies. They also released iPod with FireWire, because it's a better transfer metheod, and every Mac has FireWire standard.
You also need to realize that apple has great control over the future of the PC industry, and they would lose that. USB wasn't accepted in the PC world until Apple standardized it. Same thing with FireWire. Apple can't make these things standard if other companies are allowed to make PCs and run OS X. I mean look at the PC world, they still run off floppies, FireWire isn't standard, ethernet isn't standard. I walk in to a store and buy a Mac, and I know I'm getting a CD-RW, ethernet, 56K, USB, FireWire, and built in sound card, all standard. If I walk in to buy a PC, I'm likely going to miss out of ethernet, and FireWire. Hell, G4s come with GIGABIT ethernet STANDARD. It costs nearly $500 for a PC user to get gigabit ethernet.
Macs are such a great platform because the hardware is controled by Apple. The minute Apple lets loose and the OS is run on different hardware, the Windows problems begin to emerge. Compatability issues, problems with the drivers, your sound card not supporting your DVD drive. It's something only Mac users can understand. Apple hardware is part of what makes Macs so great.
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