The Apple Empire
I think we need to start asking ourselves: How much can you *really* trust Apple? Sure, in the beginning they were a relatively honest and trustworthy company. Even their philosophy of completely controlling every aspect---the hardware, marketing, sales, etc.---of their products made some sense. Doing so eliminated the problems which Microsoft had struggled with managing... hardware incompatabilities, driver issues, OS being installed onto--or worse being sold with---sub-par hardware... all of these issues, although not technically nor directly the fault of Microsoft, they become attributed as the fault of the software. (These problems which still exist although the industry has gotten exceedingly better with. Better cooperative development with hardware manufacturers for hardware and drivers, clearer communication of hardware requirements, etc.) In this early point of the computer industry, Apple's full-control mantra saved itself a lot of headaches. Every Apple computer had