An EU Court has upheld a ruling that MSFT should pay a $690M fine. The rub is that MSFT intentionally designed windows so that its media applications do not work with other vendor software. Clearly this is a bit of European jealousy at how MSFT dominates the computer world, Europe where are you? The writer poses an interesting question. If that is true of MSFT, what about Apple? The iPod and iTunes exclude Sansa et al. Could Apple be hit with the same sort of fine and ruling? Sounds likely to me.
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I believe that Apple will probably be in the same boat as Microsoft is, in the EU. Apple has made their product restrictive by limiting iTunes linkage to the iPod. Customer confidence/perception in them isn’t all that grand. Apple knows that and they’ve tried to gain back some brownie points by refunding some bucks for the iPhone. With a stint on their reputation I wonder how long it’ll be champagne and strawberries for them.
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Actually Jobs should get some points for convincing the music indsutry that napster was a reality. They just wanted the whole unlicensed download problem to go away, he convinced them to sell one song at a time. NO telling how bad things would be in the music business if they had not done this.But then of course as with the Mac, he adopted a closed architecture system. I doubt it will last in Europe where fairness trumps individual accomplishment every time.
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