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"Rob Morley" wrote in message
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More than with the filing-cabinet/folder/file metaphor that
Microsoft
wants us to use - how often do you find folders within folders
within
folders in the real world? But then MS has always been a bit
challenged
when it comes to designing useful file systems.

They nicked that bit from Apple because people said it was what they
wanted.


They might well have done, but Gates and Co. made it affordable,
something
Apple could have done and could still do but for some reason they seem
unable to do...

Because they prefer the low volume high profit margin business. Generally
Apple users are switched on technically and know how to turn a computer on
and use it so support costs are much lower.

I suspect it was more a case of ripping off big business to start with and
now having to keep prices artificially high so that it appears that Apple
have something that MS or Linux based boxes doesn't. The same is starting to
happened in the high end software sector, many software companies are having
to tread very carefully not to alienate their existing customers when they
release software to compete with cheaper products that do the same job for
less - talk about a catch 22, keep your exciting customer base and slowly
die or compete with the market and show your loyal customers just how much
they have been ripped off over the years !..