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Originally Posted by wayner
It's not always common. The end user is not microsofts customer, the computer manufacturer typically is.
Apple has traditionally treated the end user as their customer, and has avoided these games in the past
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To a point.
They've been really good about not disrupting users even through two rather significant architecture changes.
Was not a simple thing to keep peoples software / hardware investments viable through the swith from x86 to PPC then to Intel.