Re: Server Mailing list? (LuKreme)

The answer . . .IBM and Microsoft were judged to be monopolies and therefore have to meet a different standard because they are monopolies. Apple has not been and cannot be judged a monopoly . . .they have maybe 10% of the computer market and probably 50% (plus or minus) of the smartphone/tablet market.

There are many things that are perfectly for a company to do while engaged in a competitive market that become illegal if the company has a monopoly decision.

Apple focuses on a limited set of hardware configurations for a lot of reasons; and legally requires that using their OS (since they're not a monopoly) requires the use of their hardware. If you want some other configuration . . .then you have to buy something non Apple or figure out how to live with what they legally choose to sell.

It isn't a perfect world . . .but then at least it isn't Windows. One of the reasons for Apple's traditional stability (at least since Mac OS X shipped, 9 was a different story) and security advantages is the limited set of hardware their OS needs to work with . . .this makes things like drivers a whole lot easier to maintain. Are their bugs in Lion and drivers? Sure . . .there are almost always bugs in software.
 
On Dec 26, 2011, at 6:32 PM,12/26, Michael_google gmail_Gersten wrote:

> 
> Yet somehow, even after IBM and Microsoft both lost their cases, Apple
> gets away with it.
> 
> 4. If I want to use an Apple software technology, I'm required to use
> an Apple hardware technology. They make about 6 slots; what if what I
> want doesn't fit one of them? 
> Now, my complaint is being unable to legally run 10.6 user in VM on
> *APPLE* hardware. As in, a Rosetta compatible upgrade. As in, a
> work-around for the limitations of 10.7's new "features".
> 


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