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Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: John Navas
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:07
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<i22euu$omn$1@news.eternal-september.org>, sfdavidkaye2@yahoo.com (David
Kaye) wrote:

>John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> wrote:
>
>>The difference is that Pepsi doesn't have market power, 
>>and not being able to offer Windows is a huge reduction in potential
>>market.  
>
>Uh, Pepsi is the #2 soft drink maker.  Not only that but when they used to own 
>KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, and other outlets, they signed 
>them up to very very long-term exclusivity agreements and then spun off the 
>company into what is now Yum.  Yum is now stuck with selling Pepsi products 
>for the foreseeable future.  

#2 = no market power.

>>Can you name a single significant PC manufacturer that didn't sign up
>>for Windows?  Hobbyists don't count.  ;)
>
>No, but that's not my problem.  If there were a market out there there would 
>be somebody doing it.  

Then Linux must be a flop.  Except it's not.
As Mr. Spock would say, "That's not logical."  ;)

-- 
John

"Assumption is the mother of all screw ups."
[Wethern๏ฟฝs Law of Suspended Judgement]
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Subject: Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem
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