On 8/19/2012 8:55 AM, HeyBub wrote:
Jack wrote:
Gov't making 50 cents on a gallon is between 40 and 66 cents. The oil
companies make far, far, far less at 6 - 8% profit/ and they do all
the work. The asshole socialists want to tack on a windfall profit
tax on companies making a small profit, while they are the ones
ripping off the public. Then, the dicks turn around and give 1/2 a
billion to Solyndra to **** away into the wind. Meanwhile, MS and
Apple are making 30-40% profits on their monopoly, and no one even
whispers windfall profit. Quite a joke.
That's because Microsoft and Apple are not exactly monopolies: they have
robust and effective competitors. Their competitors are themselves.
I'd love to not have a monopoly like that. MS controls 93% of the
market, Apple most of the rest. Sounds like a monopoly to me, probably
more of a monopoly than AT&T had when they were broken up.
If they didn't improve their products with new features and the like, their
revenue streams would wither.
Nope, that is the problem with monopolies like MS. Lack of competition
means they can sell garbage with little fear of revenue streams
withering, and, regardless of what the stooges say, Windows has been
crap from day one. Any sort of healthy competition and MS would have
died or provided a quality product. They are a perfect example of
exactly why monopolies are bad for the consumer.
So it is with most "monopolies." They've got to periodically provide a
better product at a lower price or they're out of business.
That is exactly wrong. Without competition, they do not have to provide
a better product. It's one of the problems with capitalism addressed by
the Sherman Anti trust act.
The exceptions
to this rule are the monopolies established or controlled by some agency of
government (think cable TV).
Cable TV is a monopoly? I can get Comcast, Direct TV, Verison, Dish TV
and more, already more than the 2 companies that control 97% of the PC
OS market. So, if MS is not exactly a monopoly, neither are the myriad
of cable companies.
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