You're pulling things out of your ass. I'm interested in comments like yours. At some point between reading the previous comment and responding to it, you must have had some thought that goes, roughly, "Hey, I'm just going to make some shit up now and post it." Right? How else does it happen?

Apple's is not the only ecosystem that settled on carriage return. Who do you think was around for them to deliberately break compatibility with in 1977? Kildall?

You think when Woz was designing the Apple II he was going "oh better make this incompatible with UNIX"?

Just like some people will defend Apple to the death, others will desperately assign malice to literally anything they do. Funny company.

It's the same for pretty much every company that has ever existed, try not to take it personally.

It was? By whom? What were they 'deliberately incompatible' with?

UNIX, for one.

At that time Apple chose CR, UNIX was just one of a multitude of minicomputer operating systems. Compatibility with it would have been only important in hindsight.

I wonder if this would have been a big concern for home computer vendors at the time. How many of them would have used Unix? Even if they had, would Unix even have been popular enough to really matter?

No.