Re:Apple Has Removed Airfoil Speakers Touch From The iOS App...
by beagle3 on Thursday May 24, 2012 @09:48PM
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> I think you'll only find this is the case with government-granted monopoly.
That's demonstrably wrong; e.g., once Microsoft had a monopoly on the browser market (somewhere around IE5-IE6), they stopped innovating, whereas before that point (IE2-IE5) they made great efforts to innovate.
> But how can you argue this about Apple? They're incredible innovators, they deliver great products that consumers love and the prices of those products generally fall over time.
That's true. Despite what many people in this thread feel, Apple does not have a monopoly in any market: Macs are ~15% of all PCs. iphones aren't event 30% of the phone smartphone market.
What Apple did manage to do is dominate the lucrative parts of most markets -- but that doesn't make them a monopoly more than it makes Louis Vutton a monopoly on lucrative handbags.
That's demonstrably wrong; e.g., once Microsoft had a monopoly on the browser market (somewhere around IE5-IE6), they stopped innovating, whereas before that point (IE2-IE5) they made great efforts to innovate.
> But how can you argue this about Apple? They're incredible innovators, they deliver great products that consumers love and the prices of those products generally fall over time.
That's true. Despite what many people in this thread feel, Apple does not have a monopoly in any market: Macs are ~15% of all PCs. iphones aren't event 30% of the phone smartphone market.
What Apple did manage to do is dominate the lucrative parts of most markets -- but that doesn't make them a monopoly more than it makes Louis Vutton a monopoly on lucrative handbags.