>Apple has this sort of advantage in numerous standards. Everyone tests their Bluetooth & WiFi against Apple, and iterates until it works perfectly. So this means that Apple effectively gets the right to interpret standards in the way they want, and implement the subset of optional features that they want, and the rest of the industry will conform to them.

is this any different than any other major vendor? I can't imagine not testing against qualcomm (atheros) or intel's wifi implementation, for instance.