Re: Monopolies wouldn\'t exist in the free market?
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My cell phone comes with a proprietary battery. The phone manufacturer *could* have used a standard battery for basically zero cost difference. But they chose this nonstandard battery. Have they done something "evil" here? BTW, third party battery makers can still make batteries for this phone, but it requires them to retool their manufacturing lines, which is expensive.
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Im not up 100% on this issue but its IBM that has the monopoly on the PC architecture. If they chose to only allow microsoft to produce their OS theres really nothing wrong with that. This is an issue of competition between PC and Apple, not microsoft and its free competition. Microsoft in and of itself is a really bad example of monopoly pricing.
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IBM has nothing to do with PC architecture any more. Many companies cloned IBM's designs way back, but even way back then, many companies were doing their own designs. Compaq even beat IBM to market with the first 386 system; after that, it was widely acknowleged in the industry that IBM was no longer even the trendsetter, much less any sort of monopoly holder.
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