is it hip now to try and ban competitors from doing business :/ . grow up. where are the days of trying to beat competitors with a better product?
It's the nature of doing business at scale.
but look at things like ZOOM. they make product which has no new features. it just works better and that's why people use it. it does exist. just not in the minds of people who numb themselves with clickbait.
And seriously, Apple’s no better. iTunes didn’t survive because it was the best way to put music on your iPod, but because they sued the competitors out of existence.
Microsoft and Apple make good products, but most of the money comes from locking you into inferior products.
So they have inferior products than the competition?
In some cases yes, they did and had & tried to squash that competition. Less so today, since there's little competition where they dominate, but MS for example has a well documented history of doing just that[1].
I think you're conflating such behavior with not making any good products, which is obviously not the case.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
You're pointing at Internet Explorer in 2001 as to why Windows is the #1 desktop operating system today? It was a better product- with or without this shitty business practice 20 years ago.
Because nobody's even attempting to compete in that space anymore. Many would argue BeOS was better, or some UNIX variant was better etc. The point is MS has sprung into its monopoly position via many at least questionable tactics & then used that position to keep others at bay. That message has been received & nowdays nobody on the desktop is even trying because going against per-installed Windows on every PC you can commonly buy is hard to beat.
Intel had a worse product when AMD came out with 64bit CPUs and so they used their position & partnerships to play dirty, Apple arguably does not play fair against Spotify etc.
That does not mean the better product never wins. Nobody said that. It's just that it hardly wins every time, like it should.