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common misunderstanding of antitrust law. "Prominence", dominance or even monopoly is not actually illegal. There's nothing wrong with being absurdly successful, after all.

The anti-trust laws are for when that power gets abused -- when one uses their monopoly power as leverage over another market. In the case of Microsoft, by bundling IE with Windows, they were using their OS monopoly to crush a competitor in the market for web browsers.

None of this applies to Apple because they have nothing close to a mobile monopoly. If they did, the lawsuits would be over their position as gatekeepers of the entire market for mobile apps.


It is a miserable neighborhood to work in.


I dropped my paid account. I still unfortunately must keep a free account due to sharing with clients.


Please spend an hour in traffic, and then an hour In your kitchen -- cooking for a hundred people -- and tell me what is less work.


"I know I would be pissed just because I am getting pulled over because I resemble a suspect the cops are looking for"

The thing is, when white people are looking for a white suspect of a crime, they identify (for example) a heavyset 30-ish white male with short cropped brown hair, wearing a red tshirt and blue jeans. When they are looking for a black suspect, it's "a black male".

This attitude is reflected by your own (probably well-intentioned) statement that people who live in a majority-black neighborhood all resemble each other. Take it from a (white) guy who has lived in some -- they don't.

P.s. Video of LeVar Burton explaining how he talks to his son about what to do when you get pulled over: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/02/2245561/levar-bu.... This is what a bona fide, well-known and family-friendly celebrity has to deal with in ordinary life.


Joking aside, I'm surprised more isn't being made of Balmer's hand in this mess. Some of XP's staying power is surely due to it's being the first "good enough" Microsoft desktop OS (win2k notwithstanding), but the back-to-back failures or Longhorn and Vista had to have an enormous hand in a generation of users never upgrading. That eight year chasm is breathtaking.


What do a pair of grimacing women have to do with anything? Are they trying to pack explosives into an old Gateway desktop?


Okay, I'm listening.


Wouldn't Google Chrome'a "native client" be a perfect fit for this?


Race to the bottom, guys. Race to the bottom. Jobs was right again.


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