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Nope. The old Microsoft was described by Bill Gates famous motto: "A computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software." They wanted to
by ralfd 14y ago
Nope. The old Microsoft was described by Bill Gates famous motto:
"A computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software."
They wanted to rule the world. This was never ever Apples philosophy. Not with the Mac, not with iOS. They don't aspire a 99% market share, they are even content with 10% and indeed are deliberately limiting themselves in their product range. They don't want and can't reach every demographic. It is also noteworthy that not many services/products of Apple are subsidized. It was classic Microsoft to use their Windows/Office money machine to enter different segments and outcompete others.
- blinkingled 14y ago> they are even content with 10% Doesn't sound like it when they constantly go suing the heck out of competitors - not for their money but for excluding them out of the marketplace. Microsoft at least allows competition to exist if they pay up reasonably.
- headShrinker 14y agoThe competition to which you refer, in this context was proven in the court of law to have infriged on Apple's copyrights. Thus the suit. Apple allows plently of competition when they aren't blatently stealing.
- sanxiyn 14y agoInfringed Apple's copyrights? Citation needed. I thought it was patents?
- blinkingled 14y agoBoth the UK and German courts said no to Apple trying to ban Samsung products. Only in the USA where Apple can manage to patent anything ridiculous are they gaining some traction with their injunctions. If you manage to patent so much that no one else can make another phone or tablet it speaks again about them wanting to totally obliterate the competition. The fact that they are allowed to do so is another, separate issue but what Apple is pulling isn't anything near being content.
- tedunangst 14y agoSamsung is competing for the same 10%. Apple would be happy if Samsung made a different device for a different market.
- Tichy 14y ago"they are even content with 10%" Nonsense.
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