b_s-wilk > What's your point? Apple has 10% or so of the market and > doesn't have a monopoly in computers or software, has an > underlying open source OS. Microsoft has 80-90% of the > market and is close to a monopoly, with a closed, > proprietary OS. So you buy the monopoly product, and > avoid the company that has the smallest market share then > claim that Apple has a monopoly at 10%.
That's the computer side of things, how about MP3 players. I've had one fan boy that Apple's dominance is irrelevant. I'm looking to buy a non-Apple MP3 player to encourage competition and hope it works. -- Take care | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't Wayne D. | supply this, at least not directly Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
