Interesting article in the February 19, 1996 issue of Newsweek by Steve
Wozniak entitled "How We Failed Apple".  One brief passage:
 
  "We had the most beautiful operating system, but to get it you had
   to buy our hardware at twice the price.  That was a mistake.  What
   we should have done was calculate an appropriate price to license
   the operating system."
 
Now the parallels aren't quite the same, but there's still some relevance
there.  Another nice quote:
 
  "Consider the tale of the 50-year-old Dvorak keyboard and the conventional
   typewriter.  The conventional English typewriter was designed to be slow
   to prevent key jams.  The Dvorak, which arranges the letters in the most
   logical way, can improve typing speed by 10 to 30 percent and is much
   easier to learn.  But it never took off, because people had already
   learned the standard keyboard.  Like the Dvorak keyboard, Apple's
   superior operating system lost the market-share war."
 
Food for thought.
 
Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>