From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2007 - 18:51:09 EDT
> You have the history confused, your impression is a romantic > myth that reverses the actual historical process. Hi Paul: On a related note, I am constantly surprised and dismayed by some of my radical friends who continue to support Apple in the mis-guided belief that they are somehow better than IBM and Microsoft. I don't get it: why, in an oligopolistic market, should we support one huge corporation against another huge corporation? I think they've basically been taken in by Apple corporate propaganda. The history you recount in the PC industry is in many ways fairly typical of the evolution from a branch of production in its infancy (when there are often small innovating firms, which tend to exit the market or merge with another capital later) to a "mature" market dominated by large corporations. This transition, which is commonplace in many branches of production, has implications for changes in the "price channel". In solidarity, Jerry
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