Re: Zog_but_not_the_first
"Apple gets away with it..."
Apple is a premium brand. Microsoft is a tainted brand.
Apple's business model has always been to sell less units for higher profit margin. Microsoft's business model was the antithesis of that... until the Apple envy consumed Redmond. OEMs be damned, Microsoft was going to have its own iPad or MacBook equivalent!
Apple does in-house R&D and design. Microsoft obtains parts from Intel/Qualcomm etc and uses focus groups to implement its UI.