Re: Apple Monopoly? and ... Eamon

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Tom Zuchowski wrote:
> 
> Boris Guenter <bguenter@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de> wrote in article
> <6jivbf$q44$1@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>...
> > Well, I don't see things as strictly as you. What really counts is the
> > amount of cross-posting. If a Mac user posts accidently in the wrong
> > newsgroup, guide him gently to the right path and forget the matter.
> >
> > I think the "Boycott Microsoft" thread is of general interest for all
> > computer platforms, and I think thisk is the reason why it was posted
> > in so many newsgroups. Don't forget: The imperialistic attitude of this
> > InfiniTumb persons has destroyed almost all computer systems on the
> > market, including the best of all - ours! ;-)
> 

>>

 Speak for yourself. I don't own a Mac, don't like using them, and
possibly
 never will.
 
 Microsoft is only trying to do what Apple has always done-- run the OS
with
 an iron fist. If it was Apple that had 90% of the market, the DOJ would
be
 busting them. Heck, they would have done it long before now. Apple has
a
 long history of being a monopoly-wannabe. It was Apple's monopolistic
 behavior that handed the market to IBM in the first place.
 
 TomZ

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     Not really-- in fact, pretty much the opposite. Had Apple been
willing to offer low end A2 machines to battle C-64/128 and separate-KB
higher-end A2 models to battle PC and, in general, directed its efforts
toward owning the home market, it could easily have been where PC is now
by 1987.

     Instead of building its power base, Apple chose to ignore it and
pursue short-term high profits via a 68xxx-based Mac and other such
ventures.

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