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01-03-2008, 11:47 PM
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| | | Apple sued for Monopolizing Online Music
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"Apple has engaged in tying and monopolizing behavior, placing unneeded and unjustifiable technological restrictions on its most popular products in an effort to restrict consumer choice, and to restrain what little remains of its competition in the digital music markets," the complaint states. "Apple's CEO Steve Jobs had himself compared Apple's digital music dominance to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s personal computer operating system dominance, calling Apple's Music Store 'the Microsoft of music stores' in a meeting with financial analysts."
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The complaint takes issue with Apple's refusal to support the Windows Media Audio format. "Apple's iPod is alone among mass-market Digital Music Players in not supporting the WMA format," it states, noting that America Online, Wal-Mart, Napster, MusicMatch,Best Buy (NYSE: BBY), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Music, FYE Download Zone, and Virgin Digital all support protected WMA files.
| My opinion on this is that yes, it annoys me that the music I have downloaded from iTunes can't be used on anything else but APPLE stuff. I can't even put it on my Winamp playlist, which really annoys the hell outta me.
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01-04-2008, 12:20 AM
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 : 78 th | | | my opinion is that if people dont like how company X sells music...buy the same music somewhere else.
these lawsuits pop up time and again...and get squashed because its just not a monopoly. it isn't.
Now it's obvious that Apple's stranglehold is unhealthy for the record companies (who are trying like HELL to compete with them in anyway they can) who have zero leverage anymore. But there's no one to blame but us consumers for the massive marketshare that the iPod has.
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01-04-2008, 03:15 AM
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my opinion is that if people dont like how company X sells music...buy the same music somewhere else.
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01-04-2008, 03:48 AM
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who said anything about BUYING?
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01-04-2008, 03:52 AM
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| | | apple sucks anyway, why not sue em
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01-04-2008, 10:16 AM
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| | | Monopolies aren't about having a large share of a market, they're about practices that actively attempt to keep others out of the market.
Microsoft has done it, Intel has done it. Has Apple done it? It's possible, but not by "not supporting" some other type of music coding.
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01-04-2008, 10:54 AM
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| | | My thoughts on Apple & digital music is that they need to allow competitors to play their digital format.
Now do they have a monopoly on the market? Heck no. Are they attempting to keep others out of the market, mehhhh, I don't think so. Most companies do want to increase their market shares and Apple is doing just that.
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01-04-2008, 11:12 AM
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| | | Yeah don't think they are at this point.... now if they start buying out other music mediums that may force people to buy their stuff, then it may work.... It's like complaining that your DVD wont play on your CD rom drive.
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01-04-2008, 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by CoffeeShark  | It's not so much that.
It's the fact that theyencrypt their music so that no other device can read it except for the ipod. Unless of course you had some software. . . |MG| myFairTunes 7.0.2
But I wouldn't call it a monopoly. Just proprietary ********.
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01-04-2008, 12:49 PM
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| | | proprietary, for sure. Sony did that in their players for years.
Simply signing up record companies, then distributing their own format and players doesn't qualify.
See, there are alternatives, all very viable - buying the CD, buying the single from other sources.
The problem with Microsoft and Intel was that they were attempting to subvert any alternative, not just creating their own solution, proprietary or not.
Proprietary has no bearing on this case.
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