And lo on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:12:37 -0000, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom>  
did spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>> and yet prior to Windows 95 there were quite the number of competing  
>> OSs.
>
> Afterwards, too. Just not on the same hardware. And not really offering  
> a whole lot more.

True, but I think that period was really the turning point.

>>> Apple requires you to buy new hardware, so it's not purely a software  
>>> decision.
>>  Yet everyone loves their monopolistic ways :-)
>
> And the software is subsidized by the hardware, which *would* be  
> monopolistic if Apple split into two companies.

At least now it's possible to install non-Apple software on an Apple with  
greater ease.

> And it *still* costs roughly the same for Apple software as MS software,  
> in spite of the subsidy.

'Companies charge what the market will bear' so often misunderstood

-- 
Phil Cook

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