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>Since adobe gobbled them up they have a quasi Monopoly

I dont have a problem with Monopoly per se. I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement. Microsoft, Adobe, AutoDesk..

Worth watching Steve Jobs's comment on Tech Monopolies again.

https://twitter.com/dwineman/status/1274101859049893888

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> I dont have a problem with Monopoly per se. I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement.

That is a consequence of having a monopoly.

If Apple cared about products they would strive for more competition to push them to create better products and not to cement their monopoly. During Jobs's leadership, yea, they innovated with amazing products but they also stepped up patent trolling, anti-competitive practices and hostile takeovers.

Personally, I don not think the profit-motive alone in a monopolistic market can bring about innovation. It is competition that makes it happen...after all, Apple with Jobs needed to compete and innovate during their difficult years to survive. Now, after cementing their monopoly, they just rode out up until iphone 12...it will take another great company to break this pattern of marketing idealization of the next iphone 15

Wait, are you telling me that Apple, an international legal business entity prioritizes money over the abstract value of competition? Why I never.

It's so incredibly obvious, yet it frequently needs to be spelled out.

> I have a problem with their quality being crap and making little effort with update and improvement

If they are in a monopolistic position, why would they bother with the expense?

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