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Apple DMCAs iPodHash Project
TRS-80 writes "Apple has sent a DMCA takedown notice to the IpodHash project, claiming it circumvents their FairPlay DRM scheme. Some background: Apple first added a hash to the iTunesDB file in 6th-gen iPods, but it was quickly reverse-engineered. They changed it with the release of iPhone 2.0 and a project was started to reverse the new hash, but wasn't successful yet. My guess is Apple used the same algorithm as FairPlay for the new hash, so Apple could use the DMCA to prevent competing apps like Songbird and Banshee from talking to iPods/iPhones. BTW, don't tell Apple, but the project uses a wiki, so the old page versions from before the takedown are still there."
I have run windows xp and several different linuxes on my laptops and desktops, as well as having used Mac OS pretty extensively. Windows XP wins hands down every single time.
snigger. Ok. Whatever.
Courts are now the deciders for quality of tech?
No. But it is a fact that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist and Apple is not. That's all I said.
Apple's monopoly power is also in the hardware-that-is-allowed-to-run-Mac-OSX department
That is not a market. That is a distinction that you have drawn solely for the purpose of your argument. Microsoft's share of the desktop operating system market is in excess of 90%. Hence, they have monopoly power.
Apple's share of the portable music market is something like 70%, so it is a far bigger stretch to suggest that they have monopoly power in that market, but I have conceded the point for the sake of my prior post.
How, seriously, is Apple any better than anything else?
The OP didn't say better, he said different. I gave a list. QED.