I never said the macs use emulation software, I said they emulate PCs, and yes they do this by booting up into an OS that will run the production software that is NOT available on Macs. Of course the reason Macs can do this is because they are PCs... with different BIOS and OS, but the hardware is the same or very similar (the motherboard is unique, but you can buy the same video boards and harddrives, same model numbers, from other than an apple source, for lots less, and these are the same parts used for PCs)

AutoCAD written natively for Macs? That is a joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD (yes this is a wiki page, which can also be disputed; can you show that AutoCAD was invented for mac?)
"AutoCAD was derived from a program called Interact, which was written in a proprietary language (SPL) by inventor Michael Riddle. This early version ran on the Marinchip Systems 9900 computer (Marinchip Systems was owned by Autodesk co-founders John Walker and Dan Drake). Walker paid Riddle US$10 million for the CAD technology."

"The latest AutoCAD releases are AutoCAD 2013 and AutoCAD 2013 for Mac. The release marked the 27th major release for the AutoCAD for Windows, and the third consecutive year for AutoCAD for Mac."

BTW AutoCAD worked in DOS long before windows, so those years can also be added to the non-mac time that AutoCAD was usable on PC OSs.

You are so far off the mark on your AutoCAD comments I seriously question any of the rest of your comments.

I can't provide a substantiated claim, only that I am a design engineer and over the years I have seen trade ads (and have friends that work for Apple) looking for particular skills, and the requirements have been for certain software programs that did NOT work on Macs, such as the aforementioned AutoCAD.

Regarding ATT, it is a complex problem... ATT chose a poor modulation scheme for data and thus are suffering from the loads that data centric users are heaping on their networks, which is why that users jumped in droves as soon as verizon offered iphones. Apple mystique and marketing pushed their version of a cell phone onto ATT (who wanted apple due to the marketing). The iphone did not comply with either ATT or Verizon OS and specs, but due to apple marketing, it was still a coup for ATT, thus a compromise was reached in which ATT and apple both benefited... in spite of the network shortcomings to the user.

Oh and yes, you are right, apple doesn't force you to buy their hardware, they just offer nothing but Cadillacs, and their Cadillacs only work on apple gas (in the case of smartphones, this means itunes and the approved apple apps).

Now if we really want to continue this debate, we should specify that apple is more than macs, it is also ipods, iphones, ipads... the latter which ONLY support apps written and approved by apple.