Alright, thats fine, but if they have expensive shit, whos gonna buy? Its the same idea with Intel and AMD. Sure, Intel is sightly better, but its super expensive

60% more money for 12% performance

>whos gonna buy
the airlines with their aging aircraft that have no replacement parts because the coalition stopped producing them

What a joke

the militaries with their outdated airframes that also have no replacement parts

@Double Negative then make aircraft parts

Literally anyone can do that

you dont have the schematics

Make them

also, does copyright exist in ancapistan?

The issue wasnt just bundling ie, but also forcing distributers to either accept windows with ie built in or choose an obselete/broken version of windows

Nope

Copyright mega g@y

>copyright mega gay
have you seen what china is up to

brand protection is important

and also deliberate programming to make it harder for other software and browsers to work

Nah, you cant own an idea

otherwise you get Aplple High Qulity Phone Super

Ideas aren't scarce

>an idea
there is an idea, then there is a tangible product line

take for example the iPhone

Ok for the iPhone youre talking about fucking China

Where the people are poor

if there were 300 different types of iPhone, all with differing quality and brans, that would kind of ruin the exclusivity that it enjoyed

no, I'm using China as an example of blatant copyright infringement

@Double Negative But let's say I'm the manager of walmart

What am I gonna stock?

A genuine apple product, the thing my customers want?

iPhone right now is known as an intelligently designed luxury product, even if it really isnt

Or a knock off

>the thing my customers want
the line is blurred when customers cant tell which one is real and which one is fake

take for example flashchips for the DS. you cant tell which ones are the original R4 and which ones are trustworthy because there are so many of them

Well that good, if competition is making an apple quality level product for cheap

That's great

@Double Negative that's why you have brand recognition

And friends

There's the R4DSi which is decent, then the R4DSi which has software that softlocks you out after a year so you are forced to buy another, and R4DSi which just doesnt work

All of them have the same packaging

And all of them are made by different companies

Then you go to GBAtemp and ask

Most consumers arent that informed, though.