Steve Jobs and Wozniak

closest Microsoft has come to setting up such a defendable retail model is its OEM deals. Every PC sold brings in revenue to Microsoft, and nobody else can muscle into the OEM game to compete against it because those contracts act as great barriers to entry. No functional market means no competition and no reduction in prices.

Is this behaviour without any monopoly risks?

- Annotation on How Apple Is Changing the PC Software World… Back — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

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