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To: dayglored

I suggest you look up the word reasoning...


11 posted on 03/31/2009 11:55:43 PM PDT by Tempest (The Republican party, racing to lose 2010)
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To: Tempest
> I suggest you look up the word reasoning...

rea⋅son⋅ing –noun
1. the act or process of a person who reasons.
2. the process of forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences from facts or premises.
3. the reasons, arguments, proofs, etc., resulting from this process.
Okay, you said:
It’s kind of funny, because if you really think about Apple is actually the monopoly.
It seems obvious that you label Apple a "monopoly" because they are the only outfit that produces their products. You think that because they are a sole-source for those products, and defend their trademarks and IP, that they qualify as a "monopoly".

I claim that is not a reasonable conclusion, given the proper definition of "monopoly", which necessarily includes the characteristic of being able to force people to buy their product because it's the only one available.

Apple makes computer systems. There are scores of computer system makers.

Arguing that a company with only 10% market-share can "force" consumers to buy their products is laughable. So I claim it is faulty reasoning, to form the conclusion that Apple is a monopoly, starting from the fact that they own trademarks.

16 posted on 04/01/2009 12:10:39 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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