Re: Apple Monopoly? and ... Eamon

[Robert Boucher <boucher1@pdq.net>]

Rubywand wrote:
> 
> 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
>
Actually, for corporate America, in the beginning all of the "computer
people" were familar only with mainframes, and they had a saying "You
can't go wrong buying IBM."  
> <<
> 
>      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.
> 
> ______
> 
>      How are things going in Eamon-ville? What is the main Eamon
> Adventurer's Guild web site? Where can users obtain the EAG journal?
> 
> 
> 
> Rubywand