The age of the computer started in the 1950s, and one of the first things that happened to a then relatively tiny IBM was it got nailed by the Department of Justice. The result was competition and the modern age of computing. Last week, the DoJ opened another, very similar, investigation of IBM. It was — you’d never guess — on the mainframe. IBM has really been the only player in the space for some time. Interestingly, there is another vertically integrated company that regularly engages in the same kind of behavior: Apple.
"Monopoly", Rob? Really? How can you chide Apple for having so little market share and turn around and call Apple a monopoly? And then compare Apple's customers to your dogs?
Some nerve!
But then again, few people have so little sense of self-worth to be such a link baiter as Rob Enderle.
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IBM and Apple: Why We Love Monopolies and Then Kill Them
Posted by: Rob Enderle October 12, 2009 04:00 AMThe age of the computer started in the 1950s, and one of the first things that happened to a then relatively tiny IBM was it got nailed by the Department of Justice. The result was competition and the modern age of computing. Last week, the DoJ opened another, very similar, investigation of IBM. It was — you’d never guess — on the mainframe. IBM has really been the only player in the space for some time. Interestingly, there is another vertically integrated company that regularly engages in the same kind of behavior: Apple.
Some nerve!
But then again, few people have so little sense of self-worth to be such a link baiter as Rob Enderle.
TechnewsWorld fail!