Well, this is laughable.
>>> Ford didn't make the best car...
And lost back most of the car business. But at one early time, when they were growing fast, they made the best car for the money, by far. After others set up assembly lines they lost their big advantage. Then other companies started innovating them out of the market. Heard of Japanese cars, Tim? We had to give Ford and GM government protection for them to survive.
>>> AT&T didn't have the most featured telephone..
Originally, they made the *only* telephone, so I guess you could say they were best and most featured. That stopped being true, and then when they lost their monopoly protection on phone sales, they lost the phone market to superior technologies. Instantly.
>>> GE doesn't make the best light bulb..
GE and Philips make 99% of the light bulbs, and their status is partly in place because of a US agreement with the Netherlands. Their monopoly status has not been challenged yet, but if it is, they will lose share. At this point they are examples of successful monopoly.
As with other monopolies, the public is getting screwed. They buy new bulbs and have to get on chairs and awkwardly change them (very like the latest OS revision/mandatory upgrade) very frequently, and the bulbs are operating at a fractional electrical efficiency. This is one of the major causes of environmental damage, as fossil and nuclear fuels are burned to make light, also creating heat and chemical and nuclear pollution. Not to mention the cuts and shocks and sometimes fatal falls that people take for granted, so long has this monopoly been in place.
>>> Get it?
Yeah. Allowing functional monopolies allows massive profits from inferior products. You have drawn a perfect parallel to Microsoft. Congratulations on making my point so perfectly for me.
Yours,
Chaz |
