If I came back in 100 years and saw that, I would ask what physical force was used and / or where is the politician that took the bribes and passed the restrictions that caused that.
Corporations don't create monopolies, the government does. While I do agree that there are a few, very few, natural monopolies, they are the exception. Utilities, cable, the post office, etc are government created monopolies, as well as the private company monopolies created via the patent office.
Unnatural monopolies never succeed in the long run. If profit margins are high, competition will come in. Monopolies also get lazy. Look at Microsoft. They have had a great run, but they can't get out a new os any more. Here comes Mac, Ubuntu, RedHat, et al taking market share.
Politicians are corruptable, the free market is not.
Sooner or later, Joe Shmoe with the Monster Cables is going to figure out that he's been had, and in the future he will do his shopping elsewhere.
You just described the business plan of theses national chain stores. They betting than Joe Shmoe will never figure that out, and quite often they are right. After all, Joe Shmoe wouldn't have stepped foot in the store had he done a little research first.
Did anyone see the new Apple commercial advertising how intel processors used to be trapped inside dull computers, and how they have now been unleashed now by Apple?
will they now believe they invented this new medium and start demanding higher pricing
Call me naive, but if the distribution is helping ratings, wouldn't they be more likey to lower prices. After all, they make their money based on ratings.
and making their product tightly interoperable with the rest of the MS family.
That is exactly the strategy of IBM, at least in the java world.
Look at the Websphere family - portal, content management, business integrator, etc. They are all supposedly standards compliant, but try to use any of them with any other standards compliant software. And have fun trying to get them to support Websphere running on any jvm besides theirs.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas A. Edison
Is it so implausible that something does exist that we are able to comprehend about as well as an ant can comprehend a human?
I see it as quite arrogant to have such faith in the human intellect and current science at a point in time when we know so little about even the known universe.
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Oh, just like 640k ought to be enough for anybody
I know, I know, he never said it.
If I came back in 100 years and saw that, I would ask what physical force was used and / or where is the politician that took the bribes and passed the restrictions that caused that.
Corporations don't create monopolies, the government does. While I do agree that there are a few, very few, natural monopolies, they are the exception. Utilities, cable, the post office, etc are government created monopolies, as well as the private company monopolies created via the patent office.
Unnatural monopolies never succeed in the long run. If profit margins are high, competition will come in. Monopolies also get lazy. Look at Microsoft. They have had a great run, but they can't get out a new os any more. Here comes Mac, Ubuntu, RedHat, et al taking market share.
Politicians are corruptable, the free market is not.
You just described the business plan of theses national chain stores. They betting than Joe Shmoe will never figure that out, and quite often they are right. After all, Joe Shmoe wouldn't have stepped foot in the store had he done a little research first.
Did anyone see the new Apple commercial advertising how intel processors used to be trapped inside dull computers, and how they have now been unleashed now by Apple?
I wonder how Redmond will respond to that.
Call me naive, but if the distribution is helping ratings, wouldn't they be more likey to lower prices. After all, they make their money based on ratings.
Probably because 32 GB ought to be enough for anyone.
That is exactly the strategy of IBM, at least in the java world.
Look at the Websphere family - portal, content management, business integrator, etc. They are all supposedly standards compliant, but try to use any of them with any other standards compliant software. And have fun trying to get them to support Websphere running on any jvm besides theirs.
You can bet on your own death
Yes, it's called life insurance.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. Thomas A. Edison Is it so implausible that something does exist that we are able to comprehend about as well as an ant can comprehend a human? I see it as quite arrogant to have such faith in the human intellect and current science at a point in time when we know so little about even the known universe.
Odd, when I took physics traction was a function of pressure and co-efficient of friction, and had zero to do with the size of the contact patch.
I can finally get an accurate weather forecast?