The answer . . .IBM and Microsoft were judged to be monopolies and therefore have to meet a different standard because they are monopolies. Apple has not been and cannot be judged a monopoly . . .they have maybe 10% of the computer market and probably 50% (plus or minus) of the smartphone/tablet market.
There are many things that are perfectly for a company to do while engaged in a competitive market that become illegal if the company has a monopoly decision. Apple focuses on a limited set of hardware configurations for a lot of reasons; and legally requires that using their OS (since they're not a monopoly) requires the use of their hardware. If you want some other configuration . . .then you have to buy something non Apple or figure out how to live with what they legally choose to sell. It isn't a perfect world . . .but then at least it isn't Windows. One of the reasons for Apple's traditional stability (at least since Mac OS X shipped, 9 was a different story) and security advantages is the limited set of hardware their OS needs to work with . . .this makes things like drivers a whole lot easier to maintain. Are their bugs in Lion and drivers? Sure . . .there are almost always bugs in software. On Dec 26, 2011, at 6:32 PM,12/26, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote: > > Yet somehow, even after IBM and Microsoft both lost their cases, Apple > gets away with it. > > 4. If I want to use an Apple software technology, I'm required to use > an Apple hardware technology. They make about 6 slots; what if what I > want doesn't fit one of them? > Now, my complaint is being unable to legally run 10.6 user in VM on > *APPLE* hardware. As in, a Rosetta compatible upgrade. As in, a > work-around for the limitations of 10.7's new "features". > ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
