How many laws did Apple break?

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This concerns conjectured laws of the marketplace, like "Law 1: Larger size makes growth increasingly difficult."

It has nothing to do with the breaking of actual laws, like anti-poaching collusion, which is what I expected.

Yeah, I usually like Monday Note's analysis (Jean-Louis Gassee has an interesting history with Apple [0]) but this smacks of clickbait.

[0] Apart from being an Apple board member for years, in an alternate reality, Jean-Louis Gassee becomes the new Steve Jobs when Apple buys BeOS instead of NextSTEP. BeOS was Apple's preferred choice for the OS X rebuild but they balked at the price JLG set.

The only law that doesn't get broken is that over a long-term period well-run companies tend to out-perform poorly run companies, although luck does play a big part as well.

If you qualify it with the word "tend" it's more of a trend than a law.

Men tend to make more than women, but that doesn't mean there's a law behind it.

Yeah, though I was just being facetious. The point I take from the article is that the opinions of business bloggers are worth about how much we pay for them.

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