Airmail is your BEST example??? A free software program developed by a single hobbyist before the mac existed and limited to the ham radio market?

No windows PC can run iPhoto or Mail. Or MacENC. Before Apple ported it, no PC could run iTunes. Does that make windows constrained and limited? Similarly, there are literally thousands of applications that were designed for computers not based on, and not able to run on, Wintel. What does that mean to you? Apple's operating system is Unix. I can compile unix (and many Linux) programs directly on it, which is something that cannot be done on windows. What does that mean? And what does it mean when I can simultaneously run windows programs directly on my mac using $40 virtual machine software? Or that I can boot my mac directly into windows and use it solely as a PC? I fail to see the basis of your intentionally "limited" argument.

As for your phone argument, only Apple has the MUSCLE to bully around ATT and Verizon. Everyone wants Apple's phone. All other carriers are begging to get it on any terms Apple wants. The problem with specs there is that ATT had to build up their network system to meet the iphone performance, not the other way around. The android phones came a full 2 years after the iphone and the networks were already available for them.

And all of the marine electronics manufacturers must have bought into Apple's smoke and mirrors because they are tripping over themselves to support the iPad and iPhone. Not any other pad and they are just now thinking about Andriod. Pretty strange behavior for limited devices.

Apple doesn't support legacy hardware because that is their business decision. A business decision both Steve Gates and Steve Balmer have stated they wish they had made. Legacy support is an albatross around everyone else's neck. Windows still needs to support floppy drives even though the only floppies you can find are in museums. I still have problems with Ballpoint Serial Mouse drivers mucking up the works and they haven't been made in 20 years.

Interestingly enough, though, any 1990's printer, drive or monitor I plug into my 2008 mac works perfectly without installing drivers or fussing with them. I even have a 1991 Toshiba external floppy drive that my mac recognizes and can use flawlessly. None of my PC's recognize it even with the drivers installed.

Android makers do not have to support any legacy stuff because Android only came into existence 2 years ago. You weakened your stretched argument by throwing that in there.

Your analogy with a cruising boat is just nonsensical.

But none of this matters. Buy whatever you wish and believe whatever you want. Apple doesn't care. No one who wants an Apple product cares.

Disclaimer: we have 3 windows PC's and 2 macs on board (so I DO know what I'm talking about there).

Mark