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Apple made "the dominant smartphone platform that everyone must support" through its own extraordinary and dilligent efforts, and they deserve every bit of thei
by maxharris 17y ago
Apple made "the dominant smartphone platform that everyone must support" through its own extraordinary and dilligent efforts, and they deserve every bit of their success. I disagree completely with these attempts (both in the media and through legal means such as antitrust law) to cut down tall poppies like Apple - they've achieved their position fairly, and this antitrust talk is just about bringing down a company that is good at its job.
- artsrc 17y agoThe point of antitrust talk is to prevent a company that has achieved dominance fairly, through extraordinary and diligent effort, from maintaining that position in other ways. Bringing down companies that once were, but no longer are good at their jobs is the whole point.
- maxharris 17y agoThe only way for a company to remain "dominant" without doing a good job is for it to curry special favors from the government. This is done usually by lobbying for regulations that harm competitors, while leaving the company relatively unharmed (differences in scale following consolidation are natural, for example, but additional regulatory burden will keep small upstarts from entering the market - think about the way milk is sold in California). Without regulatory assistance, unearned monopolies are impossible to maintain.
- ajross 17y agoNo one is begrudging Apple their success. It's Apple's non-technical actions that are at issue here: rule 3.3.1 and Apple's lawsuit against HTC do nothing to make the iPhone better. If Apple wants to compete on features or price, they will find no objection from me. But what they're doing now smells exactly like what Microsoft was doing in the 90's. I was there, and saw the damage it did to the market and the emerging web.