After all, they're just, well - portables . Customers who use their portables to run their businesses will use more-colorful language. This is a situation crying out for clone competition. Well, it works like this. Apple goes, Think, think, think.
Bean counters talk.
Then Apple comes back to the clone maker and says yes - or no. In the case of portables, it's always been no. Wait, you protest, rushing to Apple's defense. Maybe the clone vendors haven't asked if they could license portable designs. Trust me, they've asked.