I believe that the whole apple and Microsoft thing is hardly competition. Microsoft is a monopoly. They do not make computers like mac, they only make a operating system. Apple makes computers. You cannot put Mac os on a dell computer so how is that competition? There is hardly any soft wear for mac os's because hardly any one has a mac. Its a monopoly with out a doubt. Competition is better for you, the people. With out it you would not get co. would not lower there prices to compete with rival co. I bet you are going to say that it bring technology up faster, because one co. is trying to make something better than the other co. but thats just not true. Co. dont share there patins with other co. so they dont grow off each other, they only grow inside.