I would like to point out that it is entirely Apple’s choice that their operating system does not run on my new Lenovo ThinkCentre. I’m not saying it was a bad business decision — they are a hardware company, after all — but it is particularly galling to realize that if I bought a new Mac, I would be subsidizing the development of an operating system that contains code whose sole purpose is to lock me into a specific hardware platform. I realize that most people don’t look at it that way, but there it is.
What interesting about this citation is that it is from the year 2006, almost twenty years ago. When Steve Jobs was still alive, and would be for 5 more years. The very first iPhone would be invented (demonstrated to the public) in a year.