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Originally Posted by birddog3k
- Apple is not a monopoly. In fact, Apple is responsible for improving technology to such a great extent that we have super-fast smartphones that are faster than desktops from 10 years ago. If the government was responsible for phones, we’d probably have some sort of palm pilot type device with 100 buttons.
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What about government funded research that has developed most, of the technology that we use today?
Governments actually pioneer knowledge, it's companies that take the ground breaking knowledge and refine it, and monetize it.