I agree completely -- that's why I haven't jailbroken my iPad and won't
jailbreak my iPhone. But that does give Apple monopolistic powers.
David H. Bailey
On 4/30/2013 2:54 PM, Alice wrote:
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> I don't want to buy third party apps unless they're in the App Store. I
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> Alice Saunders
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> On Apr 30, 2013, at 4:16 AM, David H. Bailey <dhbailey52@comcast.net
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>> On 4/29/2013 11:19 PM, Kris Murray wrote:
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>> > So is google.
>> > Apple so far isn't scraping my info and selling it not using its
>> > dominant position to be a monopolist like m$ was convicted of
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>> Really? Not a monopolist? When was the last time you, without
>> jailbreaking your iOS device, which is a practice that Apple disavows
>> and discourages, were able to buy from an independent 3rd party and
>> Apple didn't make any money on the deal?
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>> Sounds like a monopoly to me. Perhaps a benign monopoly like the old,
>> pre-breakup AT&T was, but a monopoly nonetheless. But because the
>> marketplace is so small government agencies don't care. Yet.
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>> Microsoft's only problem with their monopoly convictions was that they
>> had gotten too big and too prevalent and had used great marketing
>> strategies (read that as "include this or else") to become the world's
>> dominant computing operating system. If it hadn't pushed so hard there
>> wouldn't have been a problem.
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>> Which Apple learned from -- remain a smaller niche of the overall
>> computing marketplace and you can still get rich but not draw government
>> attention.
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>> David H. Bailey
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