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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 8311532" data-attributes="member: 560148">Welcome to 1990.  That's been apples strategy since the beginning.  They sold a free but good operating system under their own name, modified it and then made it closed source.  They do have good hardware suppliers, but they make sure nearly nothing is upgradable on their computers, no aftermarket support other than their own stuff and charge a major pricetag for all of it.For many years this strategy failed, but since apple has become "cool" their boutique pricing has been more acceptable and people feel like they are paying for "the best".  It all started chancing around 2000ish, when the IMAC's became popular because of their cool looking screens and lack of a seperate computer with it all being in the screen.  That and ipods really helped them.</blockquote>

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