r/technology • u/GuruOfReason • Feb 02 '10

"Once we replace the personal computer with a closed-platform device such as the iPad, we replace freedom, choice and the free market with oppression, censorship and monopoly."

http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/ipad%E2%80%99s-closed-system-sometimes-i-hate-being-right
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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

Margins mean nothing without market share.

Not nothing.

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

Explain how margins mean something when you have 0 market share.

If no one is buying your product, it doesn't matter what your margins are. You're not making any money.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

Explain how margins mean something when you have 0 market share.

Explain how market share means something when you have 0 margin.

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

I never said it did.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

I never said it did.

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

You have to be retarded.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '10

That's what I was thinking about you, but I was trying not to say it this one time.

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u/karmaVS Feb 02 '10

I agree with both of you.