Is Apple Trying to Take Over iPod Accessories?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 6, 2006 @06:43AM from the signs-point-to-no dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With more and more iPod accessories being released by Apple all the time many users are speculating that Apple is trying to shoulder the after-market iPod companies aside. However, at least one user doesn't see it that way, and thinks that Apple's move may actually help the after-market companies. From the article: 'Even if it wanted to, Apple knows that it couldn't simply make the iPod accessory market participants magically go away. If Apple did try to steal their lunch, all it would succeed in doing would be to drive those companies straight into the arms of the iPod's competitors, most of whom are desperate to see any kind of an accessory market form around their players. And that's the last thing Apple wants to have happen.'"

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Is this "Obvious Day" on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-06 06:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Is Apple Trying to Take Over iPod Accessories?

You mean, has Apple realized that people are willing to pay obscene amounts of money on cheap accessories for the gadget of the decade, and would Apple like a cut of that delicious, delicious profit by making some of those cheap accessories too? I believe the answer is "yes".

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