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Posted by Stephen Adams on 06/11/06 21:52
NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> writes:
>RichardK wrote:
>> NRen2k5 wrote:
>>
>>>> Are you missing the point that Apple UTTERLY DOMINATES the market?
>>>
>>> Are you missing the point that closed formats are BAD?
>>
>> Closed formats are what you are going to get, WMA or M4P. Sorry. Just
>> because more devices can use WMA files, WMA is not less closed; it's
>> still controlled by Microsoft.
>>
>>>> Doing worse than Sony did with Betamax? Suuure.
>>>
>>> *Whoosh*
>>
>> You might consider that failing to license is doing worse, I don't.
>> Bottom line is success, market penetration and sales.
>
>It's going to bite them in the ass when
>1) The courts catch up to them.
Not in the US. A Monopoly (and they don't have one) is NOT illegal in and
of iteself. There is nothing going on that the courts have jurisdiction
over in the US.
>2) Their competitors outdo them.
Been tried. Lots. All failures. I wouldn't hold my breath. Sure, it's
*possible* but as a previous poster pointed out, most of the developers do
NOT have a clue what people want. Steve Jobs does.
>and 3) Their customers turn on them.
Yeah, all those happy people. Right. Not.
>All because they decided to be ultra-anal with their format.
Smart busines practices...which do NOT screw their customers. The iTunes
DRM is, for most customers, so liberal that they never notice it. Hard
to say THAT about Micrsoft's DRM.
-Stephen
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