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> Apple is quickly gaining a monopoly on not-shitty hardware By "quickly gaining a monopoly", do you mean they've somehow made it impossible for another multi-
by meepmorp 6y ago
> Apple is quickly gaining a monopoly on not-shitty hardware
By "quickly gaining a monopoly", do you mean they've somehow made it impossible for another multi-billion dollar company to do a decent job on designing and building a phone?
- 8note 6y agoSpecifically the building gets quite hard when apple has purchased the chip making capacity
- varjag 6y agoThat's a very recent excuse, but the status quo been that for some time.
- meepmorp 6y agoNonsense. Samsung has its own chip fabs.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoThe building gets hard when the executives at Microsoft and Samsung and Intel or Alphabet get complacent with their rent seeking from Windows/Office licensing, or ad revenue, or whatever other reason they can’t stomach investing billions of dollars into R&D and in person retail customer service. Microsoft really cracks me up, they went as far as opening up retail locations all over the country, they just needed to invest for another 10 years and come up with something that can compete with iOS, and they decided to call it quits after a few years. Presumably because the expenses during the decade that is required to build trust with the public would cause an unacceptable hit to their financials and hence the bosses’ pockets, even though it would have benefited Microsoft after 10 to 15 years. And now they get to compete with Apple’s own processors for laptops and desktops, for which they are behind another 10 years. Because they choose not to invest in their own employees and R&D, because they already have that sweet Office licensing revenue so why bother.