Care to sell an app on ipad/iphone/ipod without giving apple 20-30% ? Have another store to buy an app through?
When was the last time you bought a car that would only get gas at xyz store? Last time you bought a bluray player that only plays sony brand bluray discs. ? Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:49:03 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Laptop? Don't understand...they obviously got a lead in developing apps for their products. On 12/10/2011 3:41 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Unless of course that front is distributing apps for their products. > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T > > -----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 >>> >>>
