From: Jan Steinman [mailto:Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 11:26 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Apple a Monopoly? [was: olympus Digest, Vol 26, Issue 9]
> From: "Bill Pearce" <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>
> Now, consider the Apple OS. You buy the computer from them and only them,
and b'dee, b'dee, that's all
> folks!
You can "jail break" Mac OS and run it on a garage-built Windows box if you
put your mind to it. There's a guy on Victoria Craig's List that sells them
for $800 or so. But you cnat go into Best Buy and get a computer that runs
Mac OS made by HP, Sony, ASUS, Gateway, ETC ETC. That is controled by Apple,
and is the very definition of a monopoly. Think how much louder you would
scream if only Microsoft computers were able to run windows. You'd never let
us forget it.
And Apple boxes take industry standard cables, cards, ports, disks, and
memory. (I've NEVER bought such things from Apple! I generally service my
Macs from my junk box or Fry's.) And I'll bet that if your camera breaks (or
television, or cell phone, or even your car, for the most part), you don't
go down to Radio Shack and buy generic parts for it. Does that mean your
camera (or television, or cell phone, or car) comes from a monopoly? NO, I
can buy another camera. And, by the way, I can buy another vastly more
affordable computer.
> And Unix? That would require far too much study and knowledge for most to
> use on a regular basis.
I guess nuclear physics is a monopoly, then. :-) Well, yes. A friend used to
say that computers would be ubiquitous when there were as easy to operate as
a typewriter. Guys like you used to say that we should learn something about
electornics and operating systems before buying one. Thank god that's over!
Seriously, I don't get your drift. If something is open-source and widely
available, but requires "study and knowledge," then that somehow makes it a
monopoly? You can download the source code! Can you do that with Windows?
As I suspected, you have carefully crafted your own definition of "monopoly"
so that it includes Apple computers and even UNIX. No, not unix, it just
takes years of study to use. I'm afraid we're just going to have to agree
to disagree on this one, Bill. Yes, I'm sure you're riht about that,
finally.
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