How Apple Came To Control the Component Market

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday July 6, 2011 @02:21AM from the one-i-ring-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phillip Elmer-Dewitt draws on several sources to argue that 'Apple has become not a monopoly (a single seller), but a monopsony — the one buyer that can control an entire market.' According to Dewitt, Apple uses its $70 billion cash hoard to 'pay for the construction cost (or a significant fraction of it) of [tech factories] in exchange for exclusive rights to the output production of the factory for a set period of time...' This gives Apple 'access to new component technology months or years before its rivals and allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to duplicate.'"

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Hardware is useless without good software by h4rr4r · 2011-07-06 02:27 · Score: -1, Offtopic

This gives Apple 'access to new component technology months or years before its rivals and allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to duplicate.'"
Even if the above is true, with the IOS software I won't buy their crap. I am not paying rent to run my own software and own my device. I know Apple does not want users like me, and I will abide by their wishes and not buy any of their products. An Air would make a nice linux laptop, but with this kind of hostility towards me I won't buy anything they make.