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Originally Posted by KenJackson
The market hates monopolies in non-technical things, but seems to love Microsoft's near monopoly in Windows.
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Actually, Microsoft is only a monopoly in the desktop market, and the only reason they got that way was by muscling everyone else into doing their bidding. They also formed a secondary support market around their flagship OS and software which added extra power to their software line by creating a group of self interested people who would only recommend Microsoft products as their whole business was centered around it. If Microsoft were to close tomorrow, a huge number of businesses would start going belly up. It's those periphery businesses they created and encouraged to grow through their shoddy coding schemes and money grab strategies that are really the only thing that keeps MS going with the power they still have. Remove those and people would flock away from them like locusts before a flood.
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Originally Posted by daffy4u
This is something I've never understood. What monopoly?
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Kindle and Amazon control over 80% of the ebook market. By proper definition that's considered a monopoly. You don't have to own everything to be a monopoly. You just have to own a significant majority, namely 80% or more.
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Are you taking into account that Kindle owners actually like/love their Kindles and would buy one no matter who made the device.
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Kindle owners tend to be like Apple fanboys. They're only pleased with their devices because they don't realize that there's something better out there, don't wish to know, and Amazon is making sure they never do. IE, blissful ignorance.