Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Nov 2009 21:49 UTC
We already had the news about Psystar's Rebel EFI possibly including open source code, but now we have another story which doesn't really seem to bode well for the small Florida clone maker. Gizmodo has a story on an interesting customer experience.
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Loon, are you an idiot? Seriously. Why the hell would a monopoly use price dumping? It's a contradiction in terms. If it's a monopoly it has no competition. Price dumping is a tactic designed to undermine competition.
That's if Apple even was a monopoly. Which it isn't, not as long as it has under 10% marketshare both in hardware and software. It's simply stupid to suggest that they are.
Secondly, price dumping is most definitely not considered illegal, not out of hand. Most countries will allow price dumping to occur as long as the company doing it is local ie. not owned by foreign parties. In other words, if the local companies decide to play this game, it's their problem.
The reasons are simple:
1) Artificial business regulation by the state is in most cases a bad idea.
2) Price dumping benefits customers.
3) Price dumping is not sustainable in the long term, so it dies down eventually anyway. It's only in the short term is can achieve anything.