By what metric is "Apple more successfully resisting commoditization of software than Microsoft?" Preaching the supremacy of everything Apple to the choir of Hacker News is a good karma-building tactic, but if you want to base your claims on inconvenient truths like software revenues, you'll find that Microsoft is more successfully resisting commoditization of software than every other company on the planet. Apple isn't even in the same ballpark.

I'm no fan of apple, you can look through my comments & see. I was just assuming on a per unit basis & only for the base OS, i suppose. The extra that's paid for apple computers is a lot larger than the $50 or whatever an OEM adds on for windows.