ARM: The Non-Evil Monopolist

yootje writes "ZDNet is running an article about ARM, a chip-maker who controls more than 80% of the cell phone market and 40% of the digital camera market. ARM shipped 780,000,000 processors last year. ZDNet finds it strange that no one seems to have anything against this company. And maybe it is strange: according to the article many would say ARM is a monopolist, but you never hear anyone say 'ARM sucks!'. But then again, why would they?"

Comments

Re:Because it was part invented by a lady

[SillyNickName4me]

> Following on from her success with BBC Basic, Sophie Wilson was asked to help with the instruction set, testing it by hand, on paper.

Heh... BBC basic....

Amazingly fast... too bad it also didn't do any garbage collection or freeing of memory of no longer used variables and such... I recall wondering for a while how they got it as fast as they did.. untill I got my hands on the basic roms.

For that matter.. the ARM was first used in the Acorn Archimedes wasn't it?

Re:When did success become

[ianXmorris]

With this slashdot arm monopolist love-in why don't we send some love to our other favourite monopolist? Send one of those gmail invites to bill@microsoft.com

Re:sometimes, monopolies are good

[drinkypoo]

Never, ever should the word "deregulation" be used to refer to what happened in California. There are precious few more gross misuses of a term than that.

Yeah, like referring to the USA as a "democracy".