Your logic is a bit flawed in that argument. The lawsuits against M$ have to do with their leveraging the dominance they have in the OS market to push some of their other products and not allowing users to easily choose an alternate piece of software... i.e. bundling everything under the sun with the OS so normal non-geek users don't even know that there IS a competitor for that function.
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
Your logic is a bit flawed in that argument. The lawsuits against M$ have to do with their leveraging the dominance they have in the OS market to push some of their other products and not allowing users to easily choose an alternate piece of software... i.e. bundling everything under the sun with the OS so normal non-geek users don't even know that there IS a competitor for that function.
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
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Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for Appl (as allan)
Your logic is a bit flawed in that argument. The lawsuits against M$ have to do with their leveraging the dominance they have in the OS market to push some of their other products and not allowing users to easily choose an alternate piece of software... i.e. bundling everything under the sun with the OS so normal non-geek users don't even know that there IS a competitor for that function.
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
Re: What's fair for Microsoft is now Fair for Appl (as allan)
Your logic is a bit flawed in that argument. The lawsuits against M$ have to do with their leveraging the dominance they have in the OS market to push some of their other products and not allowing users to easily choose an alternate piece of software... i.e. bundling everything under the sun with the OS so normal non-geek users don't even know that there IS a competitor for that function.
The iPod is definitely dominant in it's niche, but the alternatives are countless - you yourself have two Sansas, and you can go get a no-name 1 gig player at any drug store for like $19. The choices are out there and thriving, but Apple's product has the features and design the the majority of users appear to prefer. As long as you can take your own music and add it in to your iPod, there is no confilct or leverage being applied. If you don't like shopping at the iTunes store you can buy the cd. Forcing Apple to use the WMA structure is like forcing Sony to make the PS3 play HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray, which is to say, dumb.
p.s. - you may be able to listen to anything in "a 2 million + dong library" , but i bet they all sound about the same :)
that's gotta be the best typo I've seen this week!
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editing a movie to remove content that was included by the creator is a very different thing than translating the audio into subtitles...