[trash3]

Laughing and clinking drinks. Look at their stock past five years. They're a monopoly.

[VBprogrammer]

In which way are they a monopoly? Is that US specific? In the UK/EU there are at least half a dozen different tractor brands which I could name, all of them with significant market share.

[0des]

John Deere limits your options with regard to repair. It's not so much a monopoly as it is anticompetitive

[williamcotton]

AGCO has like 1/5th of the farm equipment market in the US. Massey-Furgeson and Allis-Chalmers being their big two tractor brands.

[nomel]

I don't think a brand being fashionable, to a middle aged demographic, makes them a monopoly. They're just popular. There are plenty of other similar bikes that can be bought.

edit: I'm an idiot. I read the comment as being about Harley Davidson.

[10u152]

John Deere doesn't make bikes. They make tractors and farm equipment.

[nomel]

My bad. I just realized I read the comment as Harley Davidson rather than John Deere.