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They disclose a bias: "Those dying from COVID-19 may be an at-risk population whose remaining life expectancy is shorter than the average person’s remaining life expectancy"

> That you continue to repeat this, despite it being clearly disproven above, is telling.

Where are the airpods? Not even the last model, even 2017 Airpods.. you know just to provide some aftercare to the customer after screwing them so badly

> And consumers were harmed by one company controlling 97% of the desktop market

When the 97% is potentially all free, then I don't where's the monopoly, unless you also include in the definition of monopoly having a special place in people's hearts after you gave them such gift.

People made a choice to pay for convenience, but if you looked around you'd find ways to get Microsoft products for free.

Evidence is Pocket PC

Evidence is also how the iPhone struggle to communicate with Windows PCs and everything which isn't Apple.

Evidence is also the fact that out of the box you cannot charge your 1700$ phone while listening to music at the same time.

Anti trust laws were made to protect consumers, not paper-millionaires shareholders of other compenies.

There wasn't an organic hatred against Microsoft, people were teaching courses on how to create a startup aimed at getting acquired by them and retire early.

It was a DC play from people who knew nothing about software but were jelous of what they were reading on Fortune and Forbes.

How can you be anticompetitive when your software is free?

Antitrust laws were made to protect the consumer, the same consumer which was robbing Microsoft blind because they allowed piracy.

> What a strange complaint to make, and it’s even stranger to tie it to your even stranger take on the DOJ and Microsoft.

Had the DOJ not attacked Microsoft we'd have a better, more open phone which would also come out of the box with the ability to play music while charging.

iPhones made in 2012 were only barely better than Pocket PCs made in 2005

How can you be anti competitive when your software is free?

> Microsoft got a slap on the wrist

Microsoft gave small users everywhere a free license to use the best GUI OS in the world. Not to mention the browser and the productivity tools

It has always been a free software , unless you are really dedicated and want to pay for it.

It was a really elegant solution, the degree to which you paid for Microsoft products ranged based on each individual user willingness to "look around" for free pirated copies.

And over at Redmond they'd take notice and push the bill onto paying customers such as the Fortune 500 (Exxon, BP, JPMorgan)

If there is one company that the public should love is Microsoft.