text: This restraint may partly reflect Microsoft 's market strategy--after all , Microsoft beat Apple partly because Apple did practice vertical foreclosure , and as a result inhibited the development of complementary software ( although the main problem was Apple 's persistent belief , despite all the evidence to the contrary , that everyone would be willing to pay a premium price for a niftier machine ) .
  
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  Microsoft and Apple are stiff competitors in their industry .