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> Apple makes consumer products that people like, and it generates profit
> for Apple, yet idiots like Bailo blasts Apple for it.
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Around here there is a common defense of Microsoft (in the face of
abundant evidence of their illegal behavior and dirty tricks) that
they are just doing what is needed to survive, competition is like
that, that's the way the market works, etc etc. I'm sure you know who
makes these kinds of arguments. For myself I don't know how bad
Microsoft's behavior is compared to, say, Standard Oil in the 1880's.
What I do know is that monopoly is bad for the consumer, and Microsoft
has abused their monopoly power. I would like to see Microsoft broken
up into at least two components, an OS division and an applications
division, maybe more. As for Apple, they have some unattractive
behavior, too, but I'm rooting for them until they get 50% market
share.
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