<i>Macs were also expensive, slow, monochrome, and you couldn't buy them from IBM or Compaq, for example.</i><p>All of those issues are precisely <i>because</i> the Macs were proprietary. If they hadn't been proprietary, none of the issues that made them lose to PCs would have been issues and they may have won the war.  In the 80's, every school bought Apple IIe's, so they had the foot in the door.<p>Then, under the leadership of Mr. Jobs, apple slammed the door shut on their foot and here they are doing it again -- also under Steve Jobs.<p>Steve is the problem.  Eventually, they'll realize this and fire him again when people get tired of his antics.