"RHF" <rhf-newsgroups@pacbell.net> wrote in message
news:be1e828c-afba-46da-a4d4-bff69c349932@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com...

>MAC/Apples has three problems to Real Growth and
>becoming a the Premier World Wide Standard :
>propioritory, Proprietary. PROPRIETARY ! -aka-
>single-source, Single-Source. SINGLE SOURCE !

I agree with your statement, the proprietary locking comes at a cost.
Usually in a form of lack of competition. PCs have gone from IBM 8088
4.7MHz @ $8,000 to less than $600.

Software, namely Microsoft has done the opposite, abet not to the same
extreme.

That being said, Apples move to Intel chips makes this less so. Apple could
in theory from this point forward slowly start adding first class driver
support and shift modes out of hardware+software to just software.
Leaveraging the cost advantages of commodity PCs. In essense, todays Apple
is a PC, a modified and much more standaradized version, but a PC none the
less.

The future could get interesting fast.