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I use a Mac because I like the software, but I've never bought Apple's claim to groovy virtue and niceness. The only reason Microsoft has a monopoly (on its operating system only) and Apple doesn't have one on its OS and its hardware is that Microsoft was more effectively managed--not that Apple didn't try.

Now word comes that Apple stores are pulling all titles published by Wiley, including David Pogue's popular Macs for Dummies, 8th Edition to punish the publisher for the forthcoming book iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business. The company's Control Freak in Charge may have every right to be mad, but does it really serve Apple's customers, or its shareholders, to make Mac info more cumbersome to get? Or to look like a heavy-handed jerk after you've already made the company look bad trying to censor blogs? (Via Good Morning Silicon Valley.) At this writing, iCon Steve Jobs is at 144 on Amazon, with publication more than a month away.

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