On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, David Starner wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de> wrote:
You are slamming Apple because they will not support a product from the competition
If they don't support a product I want, what difference does it make? When I buy a computer, I go to companies that don't lock me in to buying only hardware from them. Dell offers computers that you can add after-market hard drives and memory to, instead of forcing you to turn to Dell for that. That's because sometimes if you don't support products from the competition, the consumer won't buy from you.
Lots of computer [and other] companies have tried that LOCK IN approach. I'm trying to think of one that was ever successful. . . . Oh, yes. "Standard" Oil. . .it wasn't standard, so the free or cheap lantern you got with your first purchase wouldn't work with anything else. I'm sure people will come up with other examples: cables light bulbs car parts bullet calibers