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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
Let's say that's the case. (Again, I don't care about Steve Jobs.) So he wants control so he can milk money out of customers and people who want to sell to his customers. I can't begrudge a business person for that. He has no obligation otherwise.
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Nor can I. I'm clearly pointing out the obvious, but someone back there a few posts claimed Jobs was doing it for his customers. Not so. And not only that he is taking away their choice as has been discussed.
That's what Apple is all about and has been from the beginning with their closed operating system and all applications having to be "approved" and sold through apple stores, etc. Certainly a business can choose to do that and Apple has, and not only that they have convinced their users to go along with it as well as to pay outrageous prices for the privilege. I can't change that, but I can continue to point out the fault (from the consumer perspective) in that way of doing business.
I just did a search at MicroCenter (I'm looking at maybe getting a new high-end laptop). I sorted by price (I said high-end) and guess who came up with 7 of the top 10 highest priced listings? Right, Apple.
http://www.microcenter.com/search/se...uct&web_group=
and no I'm not looking at Apple notebooks, I'm looking for a new Windows 7 machine.
