spice-boy

It nice to see two monopolies fighting, keep at it greedy titans.

M68000 said:

Oh come on Tim.  I’m a big Apple fan and have their phones since the beginning and several Macs.  That being said, the days of “competition” may be gone.  Let’s face it, Apple is now so huge it just scoops up anything that is really new and can put their own take on it in their products.  They likely have an army of lawyers to protect their stuff which is fine but could also attack anybody trying to get into the tech world too.  The chance of 2 guys starting up a new tech company in a garage and having it last are just about zero. Those days are over.  Am I overreacting?  As much as I like Apple,  it is obvious how they and a few other tech companies are now just huge to the point you wonder if anything new will come from anywhere else.

Apple has become a monopoly it is the nature of capitalism as a company grows, gobbles up or put's competitors out of business it will dictate the rules and nobody but congress will be able to stop them. Anti-trust laws go back to the robber baron days and have saved our economy from a few players having complete control over an industry. We in that time again as most wealth is controlled by fewer people each year. This is not healthy for a capitalist/democracy. Apple has hit the wall along with Facebook, and to lesser extent Google. Be honest have Apple invented a product which blew (the few competitors still around) out of the water? I know all you guys are APPL stock holders so you will insult me like usual for voicing my opinion but Apple has become a bigger and more controlling Microsoft and are you getting sick of drinking that Apple Kool aid yet?

Beats said:

Ungrateful fu**ers.

Time for Apple to take all their markets and destroy them. Wish Steve was here to see this. Cook is way too nice.

great idea kill all the small developers and kill innovation and progress. 

lkrupp said:

ireland said:

Defend billion dollar tech companies at your peril. Competition is good for democracy and for consumers. Copy, acquire, kill sounds like something Facebook might say. Still, they are all at it whether they use this language or not. These companies are far too powerful. Especially Amazon and Google. Facebook or rotten. Apple are just greedy.

“Apple is just greedy”. By what moral authority do you make that statement? Who decides what Apple should charge for its products? You? Left wing twaddle never ceases to amaze me. Somehow you think Apple is obligated to price its products so the proletariat can afford them? What, you want profit regulation? Why not just go the distance and demand they be free of charge for everyone? It’s only fair, right?

Typically you must interject politics into a discussion about monopolies and anti-trust laws which were written and passed by both parties. When a company has a monopoly they can charge whatever they want, look at some of the drug companies if you need an example. As Apple's dominance and expansion continues into other industries, entertainment for starters, competitors fall away and Apple will be free to raise prices without regulation. 

viclauyyc said:

What’s wrong with that if the company pay a fair price? Isn’t this is what capitalism about?

Monopolies kill competition with is what capitalism is about. Monopolies kill of advancements in tech, science and all otter innovation. Apple. would not exist today is the Federal government had not taken 90's monopoly Microsoft to court. You would be reading this on a PC with some buggy version of Explorer.