Re: What sort of monopoly is MS supposed to have in Macintosh apps?
Re: What sort of monopoly is MS supposed to have in Macintosh apps?
- Subject: Re: What sort of monopoly is MS supposed to have in Macintosh apps?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 23:30:09 -0800
On 3/6/02 11:16 PM, I wrote:
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Somehow you seem to have forgotten AppleWorks, which comes installed on all
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iMacs and iBooks and is good enough for most Mac users. It has both
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spreadsheet and word processor, and other features. (Or is that what you
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meant by "ClarisWorks"? When it was still called ClarisWorks, there were
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other word processors for the Mac, such as Word Perfect, I think.) Word,
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Excel and PowerPoint were all originally for the Mac (Word created by MS,
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perhaps Excel too? PPT bought by MS) so it's not surprising that they had a
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significant market share to begin with,
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Nevertheless, MS (the Macintosh Business Unit, to be precise) themselves
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have calculated that approximately 20% of Mac users have some version of
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Office. The proportion who have AppleWorks must be far higher.
And as far as email clients and PIMs for the Mac go (the original topic
here, lest we forget) there are simply loads of them, too many for me even
to remember. Eudora, Mail, Mailsmith, Mulberry, Now Contact, Palm Desktop,
etc., etc. This is hardly a "monopoly" for MS. And the major portion of
their email share on the Mac, Outlook Express, brings them no direct income
- it is (or was) just a loss leader, like IE (also not a monopoly what with
Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera and god knows what else).
--
Paul Berkowitz
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