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How Apple Came To Control the Component Market 350

Posted by Unknown Lamer on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @10:21AM from the one-i-ring-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phillip Elmer-Dewitt draws on several sources to argue that 'Apple has become not a monopoly (a single seller), but a monopsony — the one buyer that can control an entire market.' According to Dewitt, Apple uses its $70 billion cash hoard to 'pay for the construction cost (or a significant fraction of it) of [tech factories] in exchange for exclusive rights to the output production of the factory for a set period of time...' This gives Apple 'access to new component technology months or years before its rivals and allows it to release groundbreaking products that are actually impossible to duplicate.'"

Comment How-to make the "Favorites" panel stay open (Score 1) 522

by slash_noodle on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:43PM (#21344601) Attached to: Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked

In explorer, I can open the favorites in the left-hand pane by clicking the "favorites" button -- but there is no way to KEEP it permanently open. I have to click the favorites button every. single. time.

You can make the "Favorites" panel open permanently by:
1) Click on "Tools"
2) Go to "Toolbars"
3) Hidelight and click on "Favorites"

Or you can use the keyboard shortcut [CTRL]+[SHIFT]+I

Unless you hit the close window button on the favorites panel, it should remain open the next time you start IE.

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