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You're completely confused. Apple is behaving legally and ethically in virtually everything you describe. You just don't like their choices and how much their w
by staunch 11y ago
You're completely confused. Apple is behaving legally and ethically in virtually everything you describe. You just don't like their choices and how much their work influences the industry. That's fine, you don't have to like their choices, this is America.
What Microsoft did was control the industry. Bill Gates prevented big PC makers (like Dell) from shipping alternatives to Microsoft software, ensuring there was effectively no way to buy a non-Microsoft computer.
Apple has never done anything even close to as evil as what Bill Gates did in his prime. He held the industry back in multiple ways, for years. Apple has done more to accelerate technology than any single organization in history.
- throwawaykf05 11y ago> He held the industry back in multiple ways, for years. This is an oft-repeated meme, but outside of anecdotes where they were being mean to competitors, there is no evidence of the software industry being harmed by its practices on any meaningful scale. In fact, at least one study looked at economic data and found no empirical evidence for it: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=269498
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