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Apple has gone above and beyond the expectations of the market. They have consistently improved their products and driven down their cost. They dominate for the simple reason that they produce the highest quality experience for the lowest total cost. Above and beyond? Lets go back to when the first generation iPhone came out. The device was limited to the Apps it came with, forcing people to rely on jailbroken software to meet their application needs. It also lacked features that most other smart phones had such as video recording, MMS, as well as other simple features such as internet downloading and copy and paste. In fact, Apple was so uptight about open source software from the jailbreaking process, that it went on a witch hunt, filing lawsuits with several providers of jailbreaking software. And then, out of the blue, when Apple released their 2nd generation iPhone, they opened up their Appstore and encouraged everyone to try to make apps. Why did they do this? Because the Jailbreaking process did not benefit or profit Apple in anyway. The Appstore provides apple with an average of 1.1 million dollars in profits every month. Microsoft is a monopoly, they engage in illegal business activities (to maintain their position) and they create a product that does not maximize the social welfare A product that does not maximize social welfare? Microsoft created windows in order to benefit social welfare. The whole reason Windows DOS was made back in the 80's was to create a system which could be put into a personal home computer system for everyone to use. Back then, there was only Unix and Linux (and a few other not too popular OS's). Unix was for corporate use and Linux was still in its developer stage. Steve Jobs was the one who took the Linux code, because it was open source, and added a bit of his own stuff and called it Macintosh software. Even today, if you look at it Leopard's terminal, you will find that many of the commands used are Linux commands, because Leopard and all of Apples Operating Systems are based of Linux, not much ingenuity on Steve Jobs' part i believe.