On Dec 10, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: > 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.
I'm actually going to agree with Anthony here. Apple is one computer vendor out of money. They are one operating system vendor out of many. They are one cellphone vendor out of many. There is absolutely no possible definition of "monopoly" for which Apple has a monopoly on computers, cellphones, or operating systems. One could easily argue that on the iOS platform, Apple has a monopoly on selling applications. And that would be true (disregarding of course web apps, which are largely irrelevant). People buy Apple products because they like them. You can argue it's because those people are dumb prius driving sheeple, or that evil steve jobs brainwashed people into buying crap. I can argue that it's because there are many advantages to the Apple software platforms, that they offer great technical support, and that the products are physically well-designed. The true answer could even be a combination of all the above! But when it comes right down to it, every time somebody buys an Apple laptop, an iMac, an iPhone, or an iPad, it's NOT because of lack choices. There are dozens of competing computer vendors, cell phone vendors, tablet vendors, etc. Some of them -- e.g., Samsung -- even go out of the way of copying Apple products as closely as they can (what does that tell you?). Scott
