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To: J. P. who wrote (32168)	11/6/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Apple dropped the ball in the early 80's when they could have liscensed out their OS and got greedy. Apple not only has a complete monopoly on their OS but also on their Hardware. Their share of both the Mac hardware market and the Mac OS market is extremely high and extremely stable, more so than Microsoft's share of the Intel-based PC OS market. There were a few small companies that had licensed the Mac BIOS to make clones, but when Jobs came back he cancelled the contracts. I imagine that this caused "immediate and identifiable harm" to both the companies affected and for the consumer who, if they CHOSE a Mac over a PC, were forced to pay a much higher price for their genuine Mac than they would have if Apple had not exercised their monopoly power to crush the Mac Clone. Of course, no one will complain and try to force the government to sue Apple because the only reason one would pick a Mac in the first place is if they're an Apple zealot from way back or they just hate Microsoft.

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