Imagine if Microsoft released windows 8, but only allowed it to be installed on Microsoft Manufactured hardware.. Would the courts Support it? Because that's basically what apple is doing.
Imagine a company like Sony made, oh I don't know, a gaming console, and then only allowed games made for that specific console to be run on it. Would you still be outraged?
Oh yeah, it's called a PS3. What you're failing to understand here is that if a company owns both the software AND hardware, they can bloody well do whatever the hell they want with it. They are under NO obligation to let everybody take it and put it on whatever hardware they want.
You need to take your sense of entitlement down a few notches.
@dmgabe market share? You're using market share as a defense to horde their product? That's a pisspoor legal argument and would be laughed at. Besides that, the reason their market share is so low, is because they engage in these tactics. If it weren't for the iPod and iPhone, Apple wouldn't be anything more than the fringe.
Well that could be a problem based on how it is done. Apple is able to get by with the bundling because of a technical reason. Microsoft would need a technically reason to justify that bundling, such as an incompatibility with standard BIOS, etc. You have to remember that Microsoft effectively used it's title as a major Game Publisher to jump into the console market. It could just as easily do the same with Windows and the Hardware market.
@BigDogJunction When making accusations of monopoly, market share is very important. Apples actions in no way compare to Microsofts actions. Also while you think that the iPod and iPhone are everything to Apple, I am pretty sure that the fact that they account for a vast majority of the profit in the desktop field, and have the best selling laptop are more important to their current success.
And again, Microsoft's road map and income is Software. And if they did that, every big and small business in the world that uses Windows on their Servers and PC's would f*ck Microsoft.
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Imagine if Microsoft released windows 8, but only allowed it to be installed on Microsoft Manufactured hardware.. Would the courts Support it? Because that's basically what apple is doing.
@drelusive
When Apple controls 90% (approx. number, not sure of the real figure) then you can make that comparison. Until then not even close to the same thing.
@drelusive
Imagine a company like Sony made, oh I don't know, a gaming console, and then only allowed games made for that specific console to be run on it. Would you still be outraged?
Oh yeah, it's called a PS3. What you're failing to understand here is that if a company owns both the software AND hardware, they can bloody well do whatever the hell they want with it. They are under NO obligation to let everybody take it and put it on whatever hardware they want.
You need to take your sense of entitlement down a few notches.
@dmgabe market share? You're using market share as a defense to horde their product? That's a pisspoor legal argument and would be laughed at. Besides that, the reason their market share is so low, is because they engage in these tactics. If it weren't for the iPod and iPhone, Apple wouldn't be anything more than the fringe.
Well that could be a problem based on how it is done. Apple is able to get by with the bundling because of a technical reason. Microsoft would need a technically reason to justify that bundling, such as an incompatibility with standard BIOS, etc. You have to remember that Microsoft effectively used it's title as a major Game Publisher to jump into the console market. It could just as easily do the same with Windows and the Hardware market.
@BigDogJunction
a fringe and the inspiration for every version of Windows made.
@BigDogJunction
When making accusations of monopoly, market share is very important. Apples actions in no way compare to Microsofts actions. Also while you think that the iPod and iPhone are everything to Apple, I am pretty sure that the fact that they account for a vast majority of the profit in the desktop field, and have the best selling laptop are more important to their current success.
@drelusive
What if, What if and again What if.
And again, Microsoft's road map and income is Software. And if they did that, every big and small business in the world that uses Windows on their Servers and PC's would f*ck Microsoft.
@drelusive
They wouldn't support it but they should support it.
It's their product. The fact that somehow the courts found it illegal for companies to do what they want with their products is insane.