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Hang on, Apple also did the same with firewire and it died even though it was a technically better solution. Its error was it was expensive to manufacture a firewire device as it needed a hardware layer on the device side. USB didn't, so USB devices were cheaper and they won the war once USB 2 came out and the speed difference was negligible.

So not all Apple decisions work, like PC's over Macs. Apple lost that war as the open standard won.

And then sometimes it is the better design, like iPods and iPhones over their competition that wins.

My point is I'm not sure your argument holds in general, sometimes its this, sometimes its the other thing that works.