Originally Posted by Jafro

Now see, that's where you @^$#ed up because Apple has managed to set all those standards by equipping their systems with the industry standards that everyone like Dell, HP, Gateway, IBM, etc... fought over with their own proprietary versions that failed. Some examples...

SCSI

USB

FireWire (which they won an Emmy for setting the IEEE-1394 standard and being the first to develop home DV editing software that rivaled Hollywood production studios)

802.11b wireless

802.11g wireless

a GUI operating system

Don't forget your freakin' MOUSE was a descendent of what Jobs and Wozniak invented in their garage, and everyone thought they were crazy.

Apple put these working technologies into their standard hardware line-up before Microsoft ever had drivers for this crap... So... what standards are we talking about here? Fortunately there's enough competition so it trickles down to you within a couple of months, several bloat-ware OS patches and lawsuits later. Competition is good. Every business needs it. It makes all of them better.