Re: Re: Apple at it again..

[David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Apple only screws over *disloyal* customers ...

;-)

On 18 Jul 2009, at 06:07, Ian Lowe wrote:

> >There is no legal obligation here.
>
> Apple holds a monopoly position, and therefore *DOES* have a legal
> obligation not to conduct it's business in a predatory or non
> competitive
> way. The EU has already investigated Apple back in 2005 for price
> rigging,
> then again in 2007 for breaching anti-trust law.
>
> Hopefully, they will have a close look at them again this year.
>
> >It's not like Apple have an monopoly state in the computing
> universe. They
> have a minor ~10% desktop stake.
>
> Apple has a 74% market share in the portable media player universe,
> whilst
> Creative, Samsung and Microsoft combined have a share of about 10%.
> It's
> almost a complete reversal of the desktop PC market. In this market
> sector,
> Apple are the monopolist, not Microsoft - and they are abusing that
> position.
>
> Proprietary lock in harms the consumer - and that applies equally
> whether we
> are talking about Microsoft changing APIs to muck about the Linux
> devs, or
> Apple changing the iTunes stack to muck around competing hardware
> vendors.
>
> The home automation arena demonstrates more clearly than most the
> harm of
> proprietary locked down systems - how many more new vendors are we
> going to
> see launch a 'not quite complete' range of gadgets and gizmos, only
> to crash
> and burn a few months later because there wasn't the market drive?
>
> Open and free is the way forward - and delivers the best results for
> companies and consumers alike.
>
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