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Quote: Originally Posted by canucklehead You seem to be using a Webster's dictionary definition of monopoly to debate your points. This is invalid as we are talking about the legal definition, as it applies to business. Here's one: "An economi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder And Coke has the "monopoly" for the Coke market. And McDonalds has the "monopoly" for the Big Mac market. Where can you buy another can filled with Coke other than the Coke company? How can you poss…
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder That's just stupid. The "given TYPE of product" is a computer. Not a mac - if you don't want a mac, you just buy a PC which serves the same purpose. Aside from that, doesn't your logic imply that EV…
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Quote: Originally Posted by canucklehead Macs and OSX are parts of Apple's brand. They created the systems. They own the brands. What do you not understand? What you said is like saying there is no competition in the Civic market because only …
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Quote: Originally Posted by minderbinder APPLE DOES NOT HAVE A MONOPOLY. Apple has a monopoly in the Mac market. There is nothing wrong with that. Monopoly "A situation in which a single company or group owns all or nearly all of the mark…
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Monopolies are not illegal. Anti-competitive behavior in the market is illegal. Many companies control software and hardware.. One example is gaming hardware i.e. Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo are similar to Apple in that they write proprietary O…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol You do...if you work as a programmer for a company and you're not getting paid every week or even if the product you work on doesn't ship, I say go work for another company...because you got seriously gyppe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer I suggest you have your friend speak for himself. I guess adding something that would express how some developer feel isn't relevant... Oh well.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Apple made it clear back in 1997 that Carbon was a 2 year transitional API. They caved due to financial problems. They no longer have to cave. End of story. Ya, I mean sure. OS X and development fo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol No...they get paid. My mistake I didn't resized Adobe gets paid when they devote resources to something that doesn't ship. I wish my company worked like that.. I've got to look into this more. Quote: …
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Quote: Originally Posted by roehlstation If Adobe had begun coding for Cocoa 8 YEARS AGO, we'd have more stable, and faster Abobe apps much quicker to market. Maybe if Apple made it clear 8 years ago, or even 2 years ago, that Carbon wasn't go…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol Who cares...nobody. Hmm....Developers who spend a ton of time and money on this.... Pro Photoshop users who would dig this (I was actually just working with a 1.2 GB file about an hour ago where I had to…
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Portable Home Directories.....? ....fianlly?
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Quote: He said that Intel recently performed a video-on-demand demonstration that required 62 15,000 RPM hard disk drives to stream 4,000 videos simultaneously. The company was able to replicate the same test using just 10 SATA (SSD) technology dri…
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Quote: Kaspersky mulls Mac OS X security suite: Moscow's well-known antivirus developer Kaspersky could have a Mac port of its software released "in just days" if necessary, company representative Timur Tsoriev told the press at the CeBIT show in G…
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Quote: Originally Posted by emig647 Oh I could go on & on about PS CS3 bugs in leopard... but I won't. Spaces still seems a bit buggy when you have multiple instances of an app in different spaces. Sometimes it won't change sometimes it g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tink This is one of my testers... I use it for surfing at home etc. Had a relatively fresh install of 10.5.1. Restarted the laptop before updating. Did a software update via the software updater which included the la…
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This is one of my testers... I use it for surfing at home etc. Had a relatively fresh install of 10.5.1. Restarted the laptop before updating. Did a software update via the software updater which included the latest QuickTime. 10.5.2 booted after…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mzaslove Okay, for no apparent reason it's decided to go back to normal speed (on all drives). Triple weird... but better than being slow. Go figure. Your drives could have been indexing for spotlight right after …
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Microsoft has one only competitor in a market segment that it has deemed critical and who it is absolutely dominated by. ---> Google. Microsoft will bring absolutely nothing to Yahoo as far as operational improvements or new technology. In add…