Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jul 2007 22:15 UTC
Apple earned a profit of USD 818 million on revenue of USD 5.41 billion for its fiscal third-quarter ending June 30, the company announced Wednesday. Apple sold 1.764 million Macs and 9.815 million iPods during the quarter, and 270000 iPhones in that product's first 30 hours of sales. In addition, Apple has released a new Leopard build.
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G.K. Chesterton's distributism is a good counter-balance to unbridled capitalism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
"Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists."
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2005-07-02
They already had a PC desktop near-monopoly. That was the whole point, really: MS used its dominant position in the desktop OS market to shut competitors out of the browser market.
In a nutshell, OEMs couldn't sell BeOS pre-installed without losing their Windows licences. The OEMs could not afford to lose the bulk of their business, and so no one sold BeOS boxes.
There's a good article about it here:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/10/23/13219/110
It's not that simple. There are laws that prevent companies from using their dominant position in a market to gain unfair advantages in other markets.
Capitalism can only function if it is carefully regulated, as monopolies are aberrations in a free-market model. Basically, monopolies are detrimental to having a level playing field - one of the basic principles of capitalist theory.
Edited 2007-07-26 03:44