That strategy could have resulted in the demise of the company except that for a good while they delivered superior products.
I don't know if that's the case any more.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Its type of computer products, of course. In the PC computer market, if you buy say an HP computer and want to add software or hardware - you do not have to go through the HP shop - you can order them on ebay from any manufacturer. You buy hardware from one manufacturer, software from other manufacturers, peripherals from still other manufacturers.
Not so with Apple - you have to buy everything from their company store at inflated prices: hardware, software, parts, peripherals They even want to monopolize the shape of their devices - something unheard of in the computer world - and partially succeeded by legal maneuvering in US courts.
They monopolized this particular computer market niche. If you were to compare to, say, shoes it is as if you wanted to buy sneakers, you would have to buy Nike.
Monopoly is the only way businesses can make profit - according to Schumpeter, for example - so it is only natural that all businesses try to monopolize their market niches to the extent possible. But few do it as aggressively as Apple.
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> A monopoly monopolizes something. What type of commodity does Apple have
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> Shane Mage
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> "All things are an equal exchange for fire and fire for all things,
> as goods are for gold and gold for goods."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr, 90
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