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That would be sweet if you were also an actual customer who was going to sit in line anyway.
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New technologies.
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It's something new and different.
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I haven't owned a laptop yet that I haven't had to upgrade the hard drive to a larger one. I also seem to run out of space on my desktops. After I include a dedicated external for a cloned backup and a third hard drive now for Time Machine the Terab…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Abster2core For those of us that have had to go to court to protect patents, trademarks and copyrights, you bet your butt they are needed. As the law dictates, you as a trademark or copyright holder can loose your righ…
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Now were talkin!
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Maybe PA Semi tech is in that bad ass, revolutionary gizmo their working on at the mamma ship....... Or.... Apple wants to bring more to the table with their relationship with Intel, which at least from the outside, looks solid. Apple and In…
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It's the G7!
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Tink, it's true that the law itself doesn't define "industry" as a controlling factor. But, if you,look at the history of how monopoly regulation came about, you would see that it was because one huge producer…
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Quote: Originally Posted by canucklehead Pretty much everyone is telling you the same thing. You just refuse to even attempt to understand what we are telling you because if you did, you would agree with us. Your interpretation what constitutes a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Tink, just because Apple is the only company that owns, or distributes the Mac OS, and that they do so only on their own machines doesn't mean that they have a monopoly. There is no "Mac market" as such. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross You're again misusing the word monopoly. Trademarks give a company the exclusive right to the trademark. That doesn't constitute a monopoly. No where will you find a definition that includes trademarks as m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder Nope, I'm making things simple as can be. You can have a monopoly on computers, or sodas, or cars. You can't have a monopoly on Macs or Coke or Hondas. I don't see how that could possibly be any s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bowser Although there has already been some rejoinder to this comment, and in that Minderbinder and Canucklehead have given excellent examples, they still haven't explained exactly where your reasoning is faulty. Yo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by canucklehead And that is Apple's fault? You knew what the rules of the game were when you entered into it. Now that you've committed yourself to the platform, you don't like the rules and want to change them. That's fi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder I am taking about the Coca Cola market worth billions of dollars annually where there is only one player with a monopoly who controls the whole market. I am taking about the Pepsi market worth billions …
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Quote: Originally Posted by tink Yes there is lots of confusion over what constitutes Monopoly. I am not using the casual definition. I am taking about the Mac OS market worth billions of dollars annually where there is only one player with a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder That's your problem right there. Companies have a TRADEMARK on their brand. They have EXCLUSIVE USE of their brand. But the use of their brand doesn't constitute a monopoly, at least not by the defini…