Gene, if you are going to debate, you need to actually do the work to support your arguments. I never said Autocad was originally written for the mac - Autocad existed before the mac did. I said it was was written for the mac originally. While I agree that is a confusing statement, I meant that it appeared natively on the Mac when the mac came into existence. Here is evidence: http://news.softpedia.com/news/AutoCAD-Returns-to-the-Mac-with-OS-X-Version-Planned-for-October-Launch-154424.shtml

In the 80's I used autocad on both dos and mac extensively. Autocad dropped mac support in the 90's like many other software companies when Apple went on the rocks. The wiki article is not wrong, it is just incomplete. Probably written by someone who wasn't born in the 80's.

All companies use appropriate computers to do their work. Do you think microsoft only has windows pc's doing everything? You can take it to the bank that they have unix servers running stuff there.

You have really twisted your ATT argument. Do you really think that ATT only wanted Apples mystique and marketing power? You seriously do not believe that Apple brought a product to market that did not even exist previously? And that product came out simultaneously with android? And ATT made their choice based on who could do better marketing for them? And that the iphone did not comply with carrier specs and they changed their "specs" just to get Apple's marketing power - not that the carrier specs could not handle the leap in technology the iphone required? I mean, WOW! Have you even used google before? It is not complex at all - Apple created a product that pushed all current technology into new realms and others had to get off their ass and run to meet it. It was the same way for the recording business when Apple brought out itunes and ipod.

So let's acknowledge that Apple also makes "i-devices". Your statement that they only run Apple-written applications is dead wrong and surprisingly naive. The vast majority of the apps are not written by Apple. By vast majority I mean, to a first approximation, NONE of them are written by Apple. Apple's share of their device's app market is almost invisible.

They do sell other people's applications for their products through a "store" and purchasing process. This makes a lot of non-apple people a lot of money. Apple does insist on testing those apps and approving them. This makes a lot of sense.

Which is why the android application process is modeled similarly. And Android ONLY supports apps written for it and approved for it. What's up with that?

Mark