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Originally Posted by bonehead
1) RIIIIIGGGHHT. Apple and yahoo have been eating up other companies for the total monopoly/market share. Yeah sure.
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Where did Yahoo come from? I said Google.
What is a "monopoly?" According to you it's a company that strives for total market share/domination.
Can you buy 3rd party hardware and put together a computer that runs Apple OS? Nope. However, you can do that with Wintel platform. If you want an Apple computer, you have to buy directly from Apple. They control the entire process from the hardware to the software. Microsoft doesn't do that. Neither does Intel.
Music bought from iTune store cannot be played in any machine other than iPods and computer loaded with proprietary Apple software. Where as MP3s can be played anywhere, using a variety of 3rd party MP3 players and software, across a multitude of platform.
No one objects to Apple's monopolistic practices because everyone is focused on Microsoft. If their places are switched, people would scream bloody murder about how Apple controls not only the desktop OS market, but also the branding of the computers, nearly all the retail software, complete dominance of online music purchase, and the portable players used to play the proprietary music format.