Remember that there were two Steves involved with founding Apple. And no,
Apple hasn't always been that way. Before the other Steve
left, they were remarkably open. To say that they've always been that way, or to
blame it on an unspecified "Steve", is to insult Steve Wozniak's legacy. Woz was
(and possibly still is) a first-rate, stand-up individual whom I greatly admire.
Insult Jobs all you want, and I'll never disagree with you. But please be more
specific when you say "Steve"! :)
Traces of Woz's legacy can still be
seen in Apple's current PC division, where they turned around and embraced a
high level of openness after years of operating purely Jobs-style. It's their
portable device divisions which seem to have fully embraced the dark side*, aka
Jobs' legacy.
* Amusingly, my first ever Internet email address was
...!apple!darkside!xtifr, although the "darkside" element was just a
BBS, named after a Pink Floyd album, and not a division of Apple. They
exchanged UUCP mail with Apple. :)
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