Competition is what leads to better products, services and lower costs.
Yes. Honest competition. Not competition borne by regulation.
Apple Tax is real because they effectively have an anticompetitive megacorporation
No they don't.
hat acts like a monopoly vertically integrating the whole system from base hardware all the way to the end user product and software included.
Patently false. There are other companies that have a vertically integrated monopoly. That's exactly what companies do.
They lock out everyone and have a walled garden that is sticky.
The walled garden is not sticky that's a myth.
That word sticky is a word investors mean when they imply it’s a monopoly that’s got no real competition due to its business model and gigantic size for economies of scale and ability to buy out or eliminate competition by stealing like AAPL does to its developers.
I'm sticky to AAPL simply because they have, imo, the best products, the best services etc.
This whole Beeper software is the tip of the iceberg that shows exactly what Apple does when AAPL can’t make every penny of the system.
Yes, it shows that some American politicans need to be recalled and replaced with those who value the American system.
The developers have been screwed from the beginning and Apple brags about it but go talk with any developer and ask them what they think. How about those who have had their software apps ripped off and integrated right into iOS for later releases.
The above is pure b/s.
Apple losing will be the sign of consumers winning.
There is such a thing as a lose/lose proposition. So I think the above is wrong.
And it would lead to competition and interoperability of software and services.
You want Apple to be Android II. Many fans of Apple do not want that to happen.
That would be better for consumers.
No it won't
I really don’t understand all these people defending AAPL and Tim Cook
I don't understand those criticizing Tim Cook and AAPL. A beloved Amercan company that has great roots and produces products people open their wallet for.
like he gives two cents about them.
Tell me one CEO of a fortune, for profit company that gives "two cents" about their customers.
All he cares about is money. He’s a power-driven maniac.
That's why AAPL is the great company today and hundreds of millions of people, buy their products and subscribe to their services.
If he cared about the environment, they wouldn’t make Mac’s they know will be obsolete due to the constraint or bottleneck of the RAM.
Starting a criticism with "if", shows it's not any real criticism.
Apple has done it with so many of its products and that’s its business model/strategy to force people to keep buying more and more products.
Force people? That is an ignorant thing to say. You can't force people to do what they don't want. Ask Blackberry.
Apple is as anticompetitive as a company can possibly be without truly being a de facto monopoly.
It's AAPLs right to operate within the law and it's your right not to buy any of their products for any reason of your choosing including but not limited to:
1. you don't like the ceo
2. you don't like the products
3. you think they are a anticompetitive monopolist and want to support the competition
4. and on and on and on.
