thrang

Well it’s crystal clear Apple should sue BMW, Mercedes and others for maintaining proprietary and monopolistic control over their platforms, denying third parties like Apple from participating and harming consumers by limiting choice….

…just sayin’…

nubus said:

thrang said:

nubus said:

You want a free market but at the same time you expect for governments to set laws regarding patents and enforce them. You can't have both.

Protecting against intellectual capital theft, and enforcing that protection, has nothing to do with a company being able to set the margin for specific products or services without government scrutiny. The marketplace will determine if a company is "gouging", and not buy/look elsewhere.

Didn't work with AT&T or Standard Oil or keep competition in browsers (until Microsoft got stopped by regulation) or stop <any financial crisis>. The market is not perfect. We can't doing old mistakes on repeat. Or well... U.S. decided to. Most of the world is moving on. This includes UK. Nations are indeed not alike. Some prefer to learn and adapt.

The comparison to the Standard Oil and AT&T monopolies is laughably misguided.

nubus said:

thrang said:

It should be no business of any government to know or consider what a company’s profit margin is for a specific component of their business.. It’s absurd. Companies already report their fiscal performance in whatever way they see fit

You want a free market but at the same time you expect for governments to set laws regarding patents and enforce them. You can't have both.

Protecting against intellectual capital theft, and enforcing that protection, has nothing to do with a company being able to set the margin for specific products or services without government scrutiny. The marketplace will determine if a company is "gouging", and not buy/look elsewhere.

Often, a company being accused of "unfair" or "excessive" margins are ripe for a competition to come in an offer something more attractive. As the App Store is a feature of the iPhone (it has no function or purpose without the iOS hardware to use it). this would take the form of a new phone platform. So far, no on is offering an option, and Apple is doing nothing to prevent a company from entering the market. If they were, that would be a chargeable offense.

So Microsoft couldn't do it, Blackberry failed (that's the big story, given how popular they were and how they failed to leverage their dominance). Nokia, Sony, and others just decided it was too hard to do the whole thing and became part of the Android ecosystem to join Google as Apple's main competitor. So Apple's success is because they make fantastic products and an ecosystem that people feel are worth it.

It's amazing how all these investigations by governments are absent any huge public outcry that something is "wrong" that needs intervention. These are just government sponsored cash grabs, institutional theft from those who know little and do little.

I'm fairly certain margins will fluctuate for products and services all the time, and will be impacted by plans for future investments. Do governments need to know and understand longer-term strategic planning and investment? Fluctuations of infrastructure acquisitions and maintenance? Pricing could also hedge against down economies to maintain stability. There are so many "reasons" none of which are the business - literally or figuratively - justifying scavenging expeditions. Governments get their money on overall financial success from tax revenues. They are not complaining about that, expect they want MORE.

Stop spending so much.

It should be no business of any government to know or consider what a company’s profit margin is for a specific component of their business.. It’s absurd. Companies already report their fiscal performance in whatever way they see fit

mattinoz said:

Calvinator said:

My goodness, all the verbal gymnastics here arguing against something as common sense as hiring the most qualified person for the job.

 Actually good leaders love diversity as it creates room for everyone in to team to lead from the side and show what they capable of.

What a sentence.

Good leaders look to hire the best person for the job, race or ethnicity be damned. It wouldn't be very comforting to go into major surgery with a doctor who was hired because of DEI, even if better candidates were passed over because of the initiative. 

If you're saying people are being passed over because of their sex, race, or ethnicity, there are ample existing laws on the books to bring action against those practicing discriminatory behavior.

DEI is dying and good riddance.

Any company that hopes to succeed is not filtering people out because of their sex, race, or ethnicity. Good workers are good workers. End of story.