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> Apple seems to fly in the face of this however

I don't think I agree.

Apple is not really a great software company.

Especially if you consider how closed their ecosystem generally is: a large part of their stack is basically completely opaque, closed-source and worst of all, prone to change at the whim of the company.

I've always had a hard time understanding why anyone in the business of building technical infrastructure (other than user-facing retail stuff) would ever consider using their products.



Apple is a great software company.

iPod changed the world.

The iPhone Changed the world

Apple II changed the world.

Those successes were largely driven by good software.




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