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• 2 years ago

  #apple #monopoly

  Non-Apple’s Mistake →

  mnmal:

  Apple has “A nearly-total monopoly on [computing devices] designed with good taste”

  — Alex Payne on Twitter

  The author of the link posted above writes:

  But, having cornered no markets, Apple is not a monopoly.  Or is it?

  I argue that Apple now has not one but two monopolies:

  I)    A nearly-total monopoly on computer (and pocket computer) systems designed with good taste.
  II)  A total monopoly on the Microsoft-free, hassle-free personal computer. [1]

  Mr. Jobs is indeed starting to behave like that other convicted monopolist we know and love.  Yet unlike the latter, Jobs did not engage in underhanded business practices to create his monopolies. They were handed to him on a silver platter by the rest of the market, which insists on peddling either outright crap [2] or cheap imitations [3] of Apple’s aesthetic.  In order to resist the temptation this worldwide herd of mindless junk-peddlers and imitators have placed before him, it would not be enough for Jobs to merely “not be evil.” He would have to be a saint (and a traitor to his shareholders.)