It is no surprise that you find IBM parts in an Apple product … while Apple is always considered a renegade in the computing industry, it still sources many of its components from the most common component manufacturers, and with the large number of PC’s that are built around the world, using their economies of scale to reduce manufacturing costs are just good business.

While Apples NIH syndrome may have been one of it’s Achilles Heels in the past, an understanding of using more standardized components in its designs are part of the reason that it is growing at a faster rate than most other computing companies. Even with core system software, Apple’s decision to base all of its media on variants of industry standard MPEG and JPEG file formats appears to be winning out over the MS and Real attempts at building in-house media formats.