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Posted by ZnU on 06/01/06 04:20
In article <s4Yeg.15439$Zc7.204783@wagner.videotron.net>,
NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
> ZnU wrote:
> > In article <ZDJeg.11364$Zc7.133870@wagner.videotron.net>,
> > NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Jim wrote:
> >>> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> Help me out here... Why should Apple pay a royalty to Microsoft
> >>>>> for their DRM system, when they already have one that does what
> >>>>> it's supposed to do?
> >>>> Because their CEO is a madman.
> >>> Define 'madman'.
> >> Unwilling to follow conventions or accept reality.
> >
> > Reality is that Apple dominates the market and their grip shows no
> > signs of slipping.
>
> Reality is that their hold on the market, and the way in which
> they're keeping it, is unfair to competition - both in the MP3 player
> market and in the online music market.
>
> > Given this, why should Apple deliberately help Microsoft, of all
> > companies, get a foothold?
>
> It isn't about helping Microsoft. It's about helping the little guy.
The iPod is a success because it's an amazing little piece of hardware,
combined with amazing desktop software. There is no artificial barrier
at all preventing any other company from developing a superior
hardware/software combo and beating the iPod on the merits.
Of course, what some other companies would like to do is get into
Apple's existing value networks; to have their own music sales services
benefit from the iPod, or their own devices benefit from iTunes, so they
don't have to start from scratch and build an entire integrated solution
themselves. But Apple doesn't want the market to work what way, because
Apple is *good* at integrated solutions.
I really don't see anything wrong with this.
> > Microsoft had repeatedly demonstrated a tendency to use its control
> > of 'standards' to manipulate the market to the detriment of other
> > players.
>
> And I never said that that was good. Two wrongs don't make a right.
--
"Those who enter the country illegally violate the law."
-- George W. Bush in Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005
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