Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/12/06 23:53

RichardK wrote:
> NRen2k5 wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>>> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 70% thanks to unfair business practice as I have already explained a
>>>> dozen times. You have nothing new to say so get the fuck out, fat man.
>>>
>>>
>>> You haven't "explained" a damn thing. Simply repeating the same false
>>> statement again and again and again won't make it true.
>>>
>>> So let's try one more time shall we? What are these "unfair business
>>> practices" of which you speak? Hint: making iPod and iTMS work
>>> exclusively (for the most part) with each other isn't an unfair business
>>> practice.
>>
>>
>> It is. It's like Ford making a car that runs only on Ford gas or Bic
>> making pens that can only write on Bic paper.
>
> Would you buy a Ford that ran on Ford gas? Of course not.
>
> Now, make Ford gas amongst the cheapest duty-paid gas you can get. And
> give it the widest network of any distributor. And make the Ford car
> pretty competitive in terms of capability and price, and a world leader
> in design.
>
> Now would you buy the Ford?

No. Because regardless, there is that illegal lock-in.

- NRen2k5

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