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That's nothing like a monopoly in anyway though. It's just a business that had the correct business model.



…that Apple randomly selected, so now they’re the only thing that handled this right now. It’s a monopoly in that they are the one that exists and other things cannot, legally, since they had a business model that they must now change.


What makes you think that Apple selected this business? Don't you think it's more likely that this business simply reduced it's risk exposure by asking Apple what it's plans for Macs in data centers are? Apple is making the rules, not some third party company that is following them.


> It’s a monopoly in that they are the one that exists and other things cannot, legally, since they had a business model that they must now change.

This is nothing like a monopoly.

It's like Netscape had a monopoly on browsers because they were the first to ship when HTTP 1.0 was finalized.




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