The reason Microsoft was a convicted monopolist was not because it prevented you from installing other OS or Netscape on the Wintel PC after you purchased it, but because you were FORCED to purchase Windows when buying the PC (i.e. the Microsof Windows tax).
Incorrect. In the antitrust case Microsoft were convicted for bundling IE with Windows.
OEM licensing, "hidden" API's and a bunch of other things were mentioned as part of the case, but Microsoft wasn't convicted for any of that.
If iOS controlled 95% of the market Apple would likely have an antitrust case brought against them as well.
But academics is all about sweating the details, crunching the numbers, being painstakingly objective, getting it right. It's not for everybody, and it's not a video game. I think the underlying problem of disengaged kids is society insisting that every child stay at school for X years, when not everyone it cut out for it.
Children enter school with unbounded curiosity. The normal classroom environment and the pressures of "No Child Left Behind" usually beats that out of them early in elementary school. The iPad textbook software is designed to re-strike the spark of curiosity and the child's interest in knowing new things. The publisher who can do the best job of the above, will sell the most eBooks so there is renewed competition to excel from the top down.
Blatant lies. iWork is just better software, period. As Steve Jobs said in 1997, even, "Sure, use Excel. There will probably be 20-25 percent of the market that will need Excel, and that's fine. We're selling to the other 75 percent!"
And that becomes ever smaller as Numbers gets features. And Pages gets features. Et cetera. Keynote is already better than PowerPoint will ever be.
Uh huh.
Better software.. ha.
Where are the sales numbers of Office to iWorks to see some of that lovely 25:75
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The reason Microsoft was a convicted monopolist was not because it prevented you from installing other OS or Netscape on the Wintel PC after you purchased it, but because you were FORCED to purchase Windows when buying the PC (i.e. the Microsof Windows tax).
Incorrect. In the antitrust case Microsoft were convicted for bundling IE with Windows.
OEM licensing, "hidden" API's and a bunch of other things were mentioned as part of the case, but Microsoft wasn't convicted for any of that.
If iOS controlled 95% of the market Apple would likely have an antitrust case brought against them as well.
But academics is all about sweating the details, crunching the numbers, being painstakingly objective, getting it right. It's not for everybody, and it's not a video game. I think the underlying problem of disengaged kids is society insisting that every child stay at school for X years, when not everyone it cut out for it.
Children enter school with unbounded curiosity. The normal classroom environment and the pressures of "No Child Left Behind" usually beats that out of them early in elementary school. The iPad textbook software is designed to re-strike the spark of curiosity and the child's interest in knowing new things. The publisher who can do the best job of the above, will sell the most eBooks so there is renewed competition to excel from the top down.
Blatant lies. iWork is just better software, period. As Steve Jobs said in 1997, even, "Sure, use Excel. There will probably be 20-25 percent of the market that will need Excel, and that's fine. We're selling to the other 75 percent!"
And that becomes ever smaller as Numbers gets features. And Pages gets features. Et cetera. Keynote is already better than PowerPoint will ever be.
Uh huh.
Better software.. ha.
Where are the sales numbers of Office to iWorks to see some of that lovely 25:75
MisTypeAhead
LOL! That's a good one!