Jezzus Ant, are you really going to short circuit logic? Is apple in competition with themselves? Extrapolate at bit and realize there no market forces lowering apple prices because they are they only manufacturer of everything mac. PC competition is not doing it and if they are that would totally disappear in an apple dominated market just like the pre-clone era of true blue IBM. On Dec 10, 2011 12:40 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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"< >> thane@computerconnectionltd.**com <[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 >>> >>> >>>
