&gt; &gt; Only losing market share and power has made Microsoft produce software with reasonable quality, flexibility, and interoperability.<p>&gt; And that, in my opinion, is the way it&#x27;s supposed to work. Vendor&#x27;s products gettin&#x27; ya down? Not being responsive to your needs and lacking in quality? Move elsewhere! Money talks.<p>Exactly.  That&#x27;s what got Apple where they are today as well.  Pre-Rhapsody, MacOS was largely a joke in the developer community, but that changed drastically when they ditched the archaic MacOS for the Nextstep derived OSX.  When that happened, suddenly there was a reasonable alternative to Windows or the various Unices out there.  It seems entirely natural that, like the shift that pushed people towards Apple, we would see similar shifts in other OS&#x27;s that would entice people to think more broadly than seeing Apple as the dominant desirable dev platform.  That seems like a healthy thing with respect to avoiding a stagnant monoculture.