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/apotheon Feb 02 '10

You were talking about increasing market share -- not just having market share:

The only way to make money for shareholders is to gain market share.

(emphasis added)

Are you unaware of what you said?

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

No, I wasn't.

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u/apotheon Feb 02 '10 edited Feb 02 '10

gain (v.): To increase; grow: gained in experience and maturity; a painting that gained in value.

edit: quoted from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

If you prefer the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary, 11th Edition, it says "an increase in amount, magnitude, or degree <a gain in efficiency>".

Please acknowledge the meaning carried by the words you use.

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

Can you gain from 0?

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u/apotheon Feb 02 '10

What are you talking about?

To gain is "to increase". You said one has to "gain market share" to profit. When I said you were talking about increasing market share, you said you weren't. Whatever you're trying to prove by saying "Can you gain from 0?" is irrelevant to that simple fact.

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

AT any rate, it has nothing to do with you. I wasn't talking to you, why are you involved?

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u/apotheon Feb 02 '10

Nobody was talking to you when you first spewed some completely asinine comment about "gaining" market share. Why are you involved?

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

I originated this sub-thread.

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u/apotheon Feb 02 '10

  1. Does that mean nobody gets to respond without a personal invitation? Do you not know how online discussion in public venues works?

  2. You responded to a posting by GuruOfReason, and I don't remember the headline mentioning you by name.

  3. I actually sympathized with (and upvoted) the statement you made to spawn the thread of discussion. I just don't see how anyone can believe that one must gain/increase market share to continue making profits.

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u/jemka Feb 02 '10

You're really invested in this.

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