I don’t think it would have cost Apple that much to include one. One can argue whether or not this was a good idea, but conspicuously absent from this suite was any kind of database system. Instead, Apple released the iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) as its replacement. They never migrated it from Carbon to Cocoa and never migrated it from PowerPC to Intel, so Mac users can’t run it on any version of macOS more recent than 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Unfortunately, Apple decided to abandon Apple Works. Not as powerful as FileMaker, but still quite useful and with a GUI very similar to FileMaker. Once upon a time, there was AppleWorks (later ClarisWorks and then AppleWorks again), which was a really nice all-in-one office suite that included a simple database. A relational database is a very specialized product, not a general interest one like Music, Numbers, Pages, Photos, etc.
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