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-----Original Message----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:41:28 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Laptop? Apple is not dictating hardware prices. They have plenty of competition on every front, for every product they sell. You guys are too funny. On 12/10/2011 3:35 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > Nail on the head! I don't want any single source dictating hardware prices > and that IS how Apple is a monopoly. They are riding on the cost tails of > the wintel juggernaut that would not exist in a Apple dominated market. > On Dec 10, 2011 8:30 AM, "Thane Sherrington"< > [email protected]> wrote: > >> At 09:43 AM 10/12/2011, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> >>> What are you talking about, man? Apple makes laptops, pcs, tablets, mp3 >>> players, etc. Others make devices that do exactly the same things that >>> Apple products do. You can't say apple has a monopoly on its products >>> anymore than you can say that lenovo has a monopoly on the x220t laptop or >>> samsung has a monopoly on the series 7 slate. It's a silly argument. >>> Apple laptops are part of a plethora of hardware choices. >>> Having a closed ecosystem doesn't make it a monopoly. You have no loss >>> of choice and you aren't forced into anything. Hating for little reason is >>> not an attractive trait. >>> >> I think his point was: If Apple were to get 95% of the market (like >> Microsoft has) then there would be no Dell, HP, Acer, etc choices. If you >> want Apple OS, you must by Apple hardware. I guess it's not a monopoly >> (although it shares some characteristics), it's more of a closed garden. >> Frankly, I'm glad that Microsoft (for all its warts) is the dominant >> player in the PC world. If things were reversed, the PC world would be a >> lot less interesting. >> >> T >> >>
