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: Malcolm Fitzgerald <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 17:20:38 +1100
ha ha, the US DOJ would have appreciated the "its just a loss leader"
argument when it had Microsoft in court.
on 7/3/02 6:30 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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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.
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And as far as email clients and PIMs for the Mac go (the original topic
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here, lest we forget) there are simply loads of them, too many for me even
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to remember. Eudora, Mail, Mailsmith, Mulberry, Now Contact, Palm Desktop,
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etc., etc. This is hardly a "monopoly" for MS. And the major portion of
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their email share on the Mac, Outlook Express, brings them no direct income
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- it is (or was) just a loss leader, like IE (also not a monopoly what with
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Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera and god knows what else).
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