Re: Building a walled garden, one brick at a time.
Some sense to this, if it can guarantee hardware and software plays together, hasn't really done Apple any harm in the long run.
The average consumer user (not gamers or those with hobbies that require specific programs), a laptop or desktop has become an irrelevance or an extra, it really depends on whether you are invested in the Microsoft platform as to whether you are walled in when the 'last few bricks get put in place', and since they've given up on Phones, there's little hope of ubiquity for the Windows platform in the mass consumer market.
That leaves Businesses, they are well on track to mess that up eventually be degrading the user experience on Windows Pro. Basically that leaves Enterprise...