[MacDV] Re: iDVD 4 is sloooow

[Mike Swope]

Eh? Your obtuse opinions aren't making sense to me. Apple's a monopoly 
because...why? Apple has not *forced* anyone to use their technologies, 
including Safari, Mail, etc. Microsoft *forced* PC makers to keep IE on 
machines and threatened to pull it licensing if they installed any other 
competing product (namely Netscape) alongside IE in the default 
installation for new machines. That's my understanding of the problem 
with Microsoft. It was leveraging its user base (97%) to force buyers 
(PC makers) to *exclude* competitors from 3rd party installations. Apple 
has done none of this.

Steven Rogers wrote:
> 
> 
> If the anti-trust laws were uniformly enforced, Apple would be 
> destroyed. It is a vertical monopoly (the company controls everything 
> from manufacture to store) as well as a horizontal monopoly (since the 
> demise of Power Computing. That ought to be an object lesson in how 
> destructive those laws are, and how wrong the ideas are behind them. 
> Microsoft's "freedom to innovate" slogan is dead-on; unfortunately, they 
> don't have the conviction to stand behind it.
> 
> Why aren't there more companies that "Think Different" in other 
> industries? Because anti-trust laws won't allow it. It is particularly 
> ironic that Apple users would complain about Apple being allowed to 
> engage in "monopolistic" practices when its only that because of that 
> indulgence that Apple or the Mac is even allowed to exist. If anti-trust 
> were enforced uniformly, the girl in the red shorts would never have had 
> the opportunity to throw that hammer.