 Closed vs. Open in the context of Apple's products.
_delirium: I think Apple gets some benefit of the doubt because of how they've gone back and forth, and produced enough cool things that they get some geek cred.The mystique of the Woz days, getting full specs for an Apple I along with the machine, etc., probably has considerable lingering impact on techies considering Apple a fellow techie company, as opposed to an Evil Corporate Behemoth.Subsequent Apple II and pre-OSX Mac stuff was pretty closed, but at least balanced that a bit with relatively vibrant 3rd-party software development, so lots of us have good memories of educational games we played on an Apple II or Mac in school, while the PC was just for Lotus or whatever.And OSX of course is quite open for a mainstream desktop OS. The sub-GUI part of the base OS is open as Darwin, and even the closed-source full thing is relatively tinkerable--- comes with gcc/python, allows for things like DarwinPorts to be built on top of it, etc.