The anti-trust laws are for when that power gets abused -- when one uses their monopoly power as leverage over another market. In the case of Microsoft, by bundling IE with Windows, they were using their OS monopoly to crush a competitor in the market for web browsers.
None of this applies to Apple because they have nothing close to a mobile monopoly. If they did, the lawsuits would be over their position as gatekeepers of the entire market for mobile apps.
The thing is, when white people are looking for a white suspect of a crime, they identify (for example) a heavyset 30-ish white male with short cropped brown hair, wearing a red tshirt and blue jeans. When they are looking for a black suspect, it's "a black male".
This attitude is reflected by your own (probably well-intentioned) statement that people who live in a majority-black neighborhood all resemble each other. Take it from a (white) guy who has lived in some -- they don't.
P.s. Video of LeVar Burton explaining how he talks to his son about what to do when you get pulled over: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/02/2245561/levar-bu.... This is what a bona fide, well-known and family-friendly celebrity has to deal with in ordinary life.
Back in 2010 I moved to a new city, and was trying to find a graphic design firm that wanted an in-house web developer. I shopped a resume (with prominent link to on-line portfolio) to all sorts of shops, never got a single call back.
A while later, I had brief access to a Mac, and decided to check out my site there (those were the dark OS 9 days when Mac testing was sort of optional). Turns out that a CSS glitch in IE Mac would take down — not just the browser — but the entire computer. I had been walking around crashing systems and losing peoples work for months.
“A way to the see the world through other people eyes” is still under wraps, but CEO Jeremy Fisher reveals that the final product will be “adjacent” to both the curation and location space, a combination of Tumblr and Pinterest, Yelp, Tripadvisor and Foursquare. The startup generated some buzz early on with “the utterly pointless leaderboard,” a meta-joke which has brought in over 43K signups...
A friend was asking about traits common to profitable web apps, and I realized that my own list was pretty short, and was unable to dig up any decent lists.Our criteria is web apps that are profitable by virtue of users paying for access or accounts; apps that were free until MegaCorpDotCom bought them out and grossed the creators a hojillion dollars don’t count.Any thoughts?
I've been doing small self-generated projects with 1-2 partners for years. One of them is gaining traction and about to take off in a big way (I hope). I never would have got to this stage on my own.
Note that having a partner isn't the same as selling out, or developing a project with an overmanaged 12-person team, etc. It's pretty much the same as going it alone but with a friend to bounce shit off of.
There was no response until 1996, when he replied that a paperback had recently been published, wrapped in one of the worst covers he had seen in his entire career.
And now it's stuck in your head! ding