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Commence with the cognitive dissonance!

• skc 13y ago
  Already happening. It's generally acceptable to describe Microsoft as a "convicted monopolist" (despite there not having been a criminal case). One wonders if people will also accept the labelling of Apple in such a manner when the dust finally settles.
  • mitchty 13y ago
    What is this kind of reply, they've been convicted of monopoly behavior. Stop rooting for companies like they are a sports team. Here, Apple: convicted monopolist. Done. That was easy. I own a mac mini, macbook pro, ipad, iphone5, 4s, etc.. and I'm a member of the developer program to demonstrate my bias and proclivity to the platform. Doesn't mean I'm pathologically tied to it (pathos in the debate sense).
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    Well, since this case, while it was anti-trust, did not involve Apple having or illegally leveraging a monopoly (that is one kind of anti-trust violation, but not the kind here, which was Apple being a member of an illegal price-fixing conspiracy), Apple hasn't been found to be a monopolist at all, so that labelling would be inappropriate in a way which it was not for Microsoft.