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Steve Jobs Questioned In iTunes Monopoly Suit
An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago Bill Gates had to deal with lawyers questioning him in regards to the Microsoft antitrust case. Now it might be that other tech mogul's turn. Steve Jobs has been ordered to answer questions regarding Apple's iTunes music monopoly. From the article: 'US Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd, based in San Jose, California, ruled on Monday that lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the antitrust lawsuit may question Jobs for a total of two hours. Apple may appeal the decision. A company spokeswoman declined to comment, while attorneys for the plaintiffs did not respond to requests for comment.'"
If Windows wasn't a good OS, why are everyone using it?
Who's everyone? While Windows market share is still huge, I'm not considering it dominant anymore. Don't look at MacOS when you look at the ratios, look also at iPad, iPhone and whatever else. The tablets will eventually become at least as common as the PCs and Apple kicks arse for now, smart-phones are taking care of more of our needs than ever before and the iPhone is doing well and Android is doing excellently. Slowly we are getting to a point where the PC is not required anymore. For average users a NAS, a PS3/Apple_TV/XBox360 and a tablet are everything that they need at home. PCs are slowly fading from their dominant position and we don't have Windows on any of the devices that I mentioned before.
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever ones.
Really, no it's not. Look at it from Apple's perspective (or anyone who creates something for that matter). They created a music manager (itunes), a store, and the portable device used to play them. Apple considered that line a single product. In their view Windows had pretty much the same setup (if more open) in that there were little used music stores for windows media player, and mp3 players that plugged into windows. In their view real was perfectly free to make their own store, their own manager, and their own portable devices (or license a portable device from someone else) and compete with them even on the mac os.
I guess the TL;DR: is that instead of building a burger king next to the mcdonalds, Real tried to set up a counter inside the mcdonalds instead of doing the real hard work and competing fair and square.