On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> The Macintosh IS a PC... and for their platform they ARE controling who
> makes the hardware, who makes the OS, Who can license their product to
> VERY extreme degrees... they are keeping other vendors like BeOS from
> alowing thier OS to run on thier current platforms... to get apple juice
> you have to buy thier cups, napkins, straws, AND glasses! Since you
> stating that they aren't in the same field as microsoft.. then what ever
> field they are in THEY have a monoply!
You're not comparing apples and apples (pun intended). Try NOT to think in
logical fallacies here. A single vendor who sells a proprietary product
only to a direct market != a single vendor who wheedles other companies
into bundling.
Apple is similar to Sun or IBM, not to Microsoft.
Also recognize that a "monopoly" is dependent upon an overall market.
Apple has a monopoly on *Macintoshes* but not on the PC market as a whole.
MS *DOES* have a monopoly on the PC market as a whole.
For one thing, look at MS's market cap vs. Apple's. No contest there. (For
a long time, Apple's market cap was significantly greater than MS's)
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