If you don't like the terms we set for living in our community, you can leave at any time of your choice. You stay by your own choice just as much as people buy Apple products. No one is forcing you to be here. Whatever happened to individual responsibility?
Apple is perfectly free to decline to do business in our community if it doesn't like our terms for doing so.
If a netbook fits a PC users needs, they can go out and buy one and run all their usual software on it. A Mac user would either have to do without, or straddle ecosystems.
A spec for spec comparison is only relevant if the Dell or Lenova you would buy happens to be exactly the same as available Macs. The vast majority of the time, they will not.
Most of the "Mac Tax" comes from having to buy more powerful than necessary components. Apple does get a large part of that, as those parts have a higher profit margin. To figure out the difference in price, spec out the Dell you would buy, and compare it to the Mac you'd have to buy.
For example, most people have their mets more than met by a $700 notebook. The bottom end MacBook may have better specs, but if you don't need it that's irrelevant; it serves only to pad Apple's bottom line.
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Is that it's a term of the volume/"professional" licenses large organizations have to enter into.
Who can screw their customers and expect them to come back for more.
Or, at least, a second one.
Are you aware that the disabled can in fact have children that they care for?
They have to paint a single parking spot blue?
Don't rent the attic room in that really old house. No matter how cheap it is.
In the same way a traditional phone company could have a monopoly, even though there was a competitor the next town over.
Whether it's legal or not is irrelevant. Monopolies are not expressly illegal.
If you don't like the terms we set for living in our community, you can leave at any time of your choice. You stay by your own choice just as much as people buy Apple products. No one is forcing you to be here. Whatever happened to individual responsibility?
Apple is perfectly free to decline to do business in our community if it doesn't like our terms for doing so.
People have every right to implement "communist" policies if they so wish.
Go ahead and google that. I'm sure you'll need to.
Point. Match. Game.
Just not by right wing governments. Clinton fixed the Nixon/Reagan deficit. Bush has left a bigger mess, but it can be fixed.
There's no denying that Apple has a monopoly on applications for the iPhone, though, whether legally or not.
So I'll just not bother with you.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
But you know that.
And we have no good reason to allow them to persist.
Though I hear there are undenied allegations that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1991.
You cannot withhold anything from someone that has physical access to your machine. Anything they want to take, they can.
If you don't trust them with the root password, you shouldn't trust them with physical access.
They send you traffic, for free, and set up advertising to make you money.
Papermongers hate google, because no one wants their wares anymore, much as I'm sure horse breeders hated Henry Ford.
As long as the downtime that will result is acceptable.
There's no need to fetishize archaic technology.
We're talking about regular people, comparing the cost of Mac and PCs. The vendor lock in is certainly a part of that cost.
If a netbook fits a PC users needs, they can go out and buy one and run all their usual software on it. A Mac user would either have to do without, or straddle ecosystems.
A spec for spec comparison is only relevant if the Dell or Lenova you would buy happens to be exactly the same as available Macs. The vast majority of the time, they will not.
Most of the "Mac Tax" comes from having to buy more powerful than necessary components. Apple does get a large part of that, as those parts have a higher profit margin. To figure out the difference in price, spec out the Dell you would buy, and compare it to the Mac you'd have to buy.
For example, most people have their mets more than met by a $700 notebook. The bottom end MacBook may have better specs, but if you don't need it that's irrelevant; it serves only to pad Apple's bottom line.