Apple ripping people off with the black MacBook 1710
Neither can I, but Hillary would be even more of a dividing influence than Bush Jr - if possible. That's true...
James Davis
I agree with this to some extent. Apple has always been a dichotomy between Art and Bizness, with Steve generally being more on the Bizness side of the ledger, while Woz brought the Artist into the company.
The Apple II was "over-priced" according to your logic, as was the original Mac (though that was Sculley's decision). When Apple in fact had a bona-fide monopoly on usable, GUI machines, 1986-1990, we saw them leverage that market power with truly obscene profit margins.
Apple in the 1990s tried to find the right balance, and with the iMac and iBook, and now Mini, is seeing some success in this.
But the bottomline is that once you incorporate you become beholden to the shareholders, and lose the freedom to be such a Good Guy. Plus being a Good Guy doesn't pay the bills, or fund the building of another Nice Corporate Campus that Steve has his eye on now.