Comments on: Apple named in ‘monopoly’ lawsuit

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:51:42 +0000

Microsoft pays computer vendors to pre-install Windows on them. Actually this is the only way they can distribute window VISTA that nobody want. It is very slow, very buggy, is fiull of DRM and spywares.
Window XP acceptance worked because most users went for window me a big piece of bloat-ware compare to 95) to XP with a definitive advantage in stability and although window XP is bloatware too compare to 2K. But window XP to Vista NO WAY! I will switch to Linux instead.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:44:30 +0000

The music industry should have developed the high definition music format but no, they are still debating how to DRMised the audio DVD and SACD better instead.

By: EE

EE — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:06:50 +0000

As much as I dislike apple as a company, the big 4 are on the supply side of the equation, not apple. There are plenty of places to get mp3’s out there. When i tunes falls apart, it will probably be due to good old market forces, not this type of lawsuit.

By: Andrey

Andrey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:55:51 +0000

Shawn says: “Apple is no more a monopoly than MS is”
Microsoft pays computer vendors to pre-install Windows on them. This is pure bribery.
Unless you were referring to XBox/360, you just stated that Apple uses anti-competitive methods of furthering iPod sales, much like Microsoft does with Windows.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:33:18 +0000

So if I’m to understand correctly….Apple’s innability or unwillingness to support WMA (I don’t know if it’s entirely their fault….Micro$oft probably also plays a part) is a monopoly, but if one proprietary format (ie WMA) dominated the entire digital download market, requiring all consumers who wanted to take part to purchase a compatible device, it would perfectly fine. Yeah right.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:17:57 +0000

Amazon’s DRM-free music is exactly why Apple doesn’t have a monopoly. If you want to listen to an iPod, and you don’t want to buy from iTunes, go to Amazon, which is able to play on virtually any digital music player available. If you don’t like Apple’s profit margins on the iPod, well, there’s no gun to your head forcing you to buy it. Apple is no more a monopoly than MS is, you still have plenty of choice available, just because you don’t like the way they are doing things doesn’t mean you don’t have the choice.