[pharmakom]

The hardware is better because of RnD, funded by high margins due to software lock-in. Not sure why people struggle to see the connection here.

[jchw]

Nobody "struggles" to see something that you literally made up. The original iPhone and iPad were literally global news and that happened before they ever did anything like this.

I am sure it made them a rich company, but they were going to be rich anyways. They also hoard money like fucking crazy, so it's not like it's all getting spent on R&D.