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I don't think you understand monopoly
Monopoly isn't merely having a certain percentage of a market. Monopoly is when you can influence a market because of the percentage control you have.

In Palm's case they had a large share of the market so they had first adopter advantage. In MS's case they were able to "incentivize" the OEM's to build their handhelds for them.

Finally, the main complaint isn't so much that MS can't compete it's that they tend to use whatever leverage they can when it comes to competition. In this case they're selling/promoting tighter integration to the desktop OS through their handheld OS.
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This can't be!  ShadeTree | 04/30/04
I don't think you understand monopoly  Robert Crocker | 04/30/04
Note the time and date please....  quietLee | 04/30/04
I think it is you that doesn't understand!  ShadeTree | 04/30/04
So, I could have grabbed that market share also...  el1jones | 04/30/04
Yup, Microsoft uses its advantages  Anton Philidor | 04/30/04
RE: Microsoft uses its advantages  JakAttak | 04/30/04
Correction needed.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
BeOS will make it better?  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
Umm Monopoly on the desktop  voska | 04/30/04
Screen Real Estate  Martin Marvinski | 04/30/04
What do these numbers reallly mean?  tic swayback | 04/30/04
Perhaps a more meaningful figure  quietLee | 04/30/04
What you put in one end of the pipe, comes out the other.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/30/04
But it's meaningless  tic swayback | 04/30/04
(NT) .....if you forget to light it, and suck really, really hard :o)  Jack-Booted EULA | 05/01/04
And we all know how much he sucks. (nt)  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/02/04
Shipping more units  MalumRegnat | 04/30/04
Not quite that way.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
Tilting the numbers  tic swayback | 05/01/04
PocketPC Vs. Palm  mabricen | 04/30/04
RE: 3 products  JakAttak | 04/30/04
MSN messanger bytes  voska | 04/30/04
treo 600  TWRX | 04/30/04
Treo 600 needs Wndows Mobile  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
Really nothing to brag about.  systemcleaner | 04/30/04
Microsoft doesn't sell PPCs...  Confused by religion | 05/01/04
You don't know what you are talking about or you pretend to.  systemcleaner | 05/01/04
No, you're wrong.  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
The FACT is...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/02/04
Good choice of words.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 05/02/04
Taking is the key word  martman100 | 05/03/04
Not  Teknophobic | 05/03/04
The FACT is... RTFA  OldeTimeGeek | 05/03/04
Palm Is Losing on it's Own  jskoller | 05/06/04

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