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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood There is no contradiction there. Apple tried to copy the exact model they despised, and had they succeeded the market would be in a lousy place and Apple would indeed be akin to Big Brother. This is just…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton I am not disputing that Microsoft's licensing practices were anticompetitive. I am disputing the claim that (and I am quoting your previous post): "If it wasn't for these illegal Microsoft business …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton The only real competitor who fell victim to those practices was Novell and DR-DOS. It kept them off the PC. DR-DOS was a MS-DOS clone. Let's not forget IBM's OS/2. Quote: Originally Posted by Sudd…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood Whatever happened to the days when Apple insisted and was all in support of saying owning both the hardware and software was evil and gave a company *way* too much market power? Remember the 'Big Brother' comm…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Natsuru If the business models of microsoft and other companies have been "Proven" to fail time and time again, how do you justify the lack of marketshare on the part of Apple? One word: MONOPOLY. Microsoft has…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton The anticompetitive practices you are referring to ended years ago. The lack of widespread adoption is not for a lack of choice. It's a lack of demand. That is what is going to keep Windows king of…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton My point is: Microsoft lucked out because IBM was lazy, and their laziness created a hardware platform that got away from IBM's control. You can't even have a viable business licensing an OS to other …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jd_in_sb Great article DED. I give Microsoft more credit for their past success than you do, though. Saying Microsoft "simply won by cheating, erecting a monopoly where nobody else could actually play" ignores the br…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Mavericks Strongly disagree with Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 failure. Firstly they never expected the nexus line to beat Apple, the nexus line exist to inspire manufactures to make better hardware. I guess they're pretty suc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by blhr Used an iPhone for 6 years. Sold my iPhone 5 for an S4 Active. With the exception of the camera, which is still pretty solid but not consistently enough, I'm much happier with my S4. 5" screen. Water resistant. N…
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This is NOT a new invention. Apple engineers saw the movie "Minority Report" and copied everything from there.
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The ITC ban does target older or discontinued products but that is not what Apple was aiming for. Apple wanted an ITC ruling in place on the infringement of the two patents. With an ITC ruling/ban in place, Apple could ask the ITC to ban additio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling False. Samsung did not "demand that Apple license non-SEP Apple patents". Actually, Samsung did. Look here: http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/07/wheres-doj-samsung-takes-extortionate.ht…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frood In that sense it is a good overturn. If the general sentiment is true that it can start a 'tit for tat' war between nations and the ITC as well as generally promoting the notion that SEP patents are …
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Quote: Originally Posted by lkrupp I'm still unclear about what this is actually all about. So Samsung has a patent on something related to 3G GSM technology that Apple used in early versions of the iPhone and iPad. Did Apple refuse t…
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The easiest solution to this problem is to require the Apple device serial number as part of the reservation and limit the reservation to one or two serial numbers.
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Does anyone know if the new Haswell 15" MBP Retinas coming in September/October are going to have more RAM for the same list prices on Apple's website as the current models or will they stay with 8GB? If it is the latter then it makes more sense …
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This news is gratifying and cathartic for all long-time Mac users such as myself (25 years and counting). I can remember the days when Microsoft bought software companies that were supporting both Wintel and Mac platforms and then dropped Mac sup…
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Does this mean that someone can bring back Lindows?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar With Macs able to run Windows, who needs Mac OS? Maybe one day those IT admins will get the idea to require that if any employee wants to have a Mac, the Mac must run Windows natively (Bootcamp) and…