What makes you think the Apple business plan has ever been about monopoly? Can you name a single product - apart from the iPod, which I think you'll concede belongs outside the PC market - since the Apple ][ that possessed anything close to a plurality of the market? I think it is important for open-source advocates in particular to understand that monopoly is not the only business model with a chance at success.
We'll see. It sounds to me like you're trying to parallel the current state of online music vending with the history of the home GUI PC. I am not convinced. Apple's position in this case is solidly mainstream, whereas in the latter it was decidedly - and more or less necessarily - niche. Furthermore (and probably more importantly) Apple's marketshare in the present case is astronomically higher than it ever was in the desktop GUI business. Or am I mistaking you?
WMS
This resource does not appear to me to overlap significantly with Lexis-Nexis or Wikipedia. Theatre reviews and opinion pieces on textile tariffs dating from the 1830s - not to mention the volumes of irredeemable fluff that fill out any newspaper - are not 'information' of the kind you seem to mean. If you just want to find out about... um... anything - as everyone does - you aren't going to go looking for it here. The potential of the resource is almost purely academic, I think: it makes researching the culture and daily detail of Victorian London more convenient for eggheads and dilettantes alike.
I want to know more about what the resource will look like. The article is light on details. Are they going to preserve full-page layouts and typography? Will article text be searchable, or just leaders and keywords? What's editorial policy on the boring and lame? The BBC piece leans hard on a few name-drops, but scholarly editions will have already collected most or all of Thackeray's reviews and criticism; Thackeray is less valuable, in this context, than the dreck and bumbasting that can't be found anywhere else.
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What makes you think the Apple business plan has ever been about monopoly? Can you name a single product - apart from the iPod, which I think you'll concede belongs outside the PC market - since the Apple ][ that possessed anything close to a plurality of the market? I think it is important for open-source advocates in particular to understand that monopoly is not the only business model with a chance at success.
We'll see. It sounds to me like you're trying to parallel the current state of online music vending with the history of the home GUI PC. I am not convinced. Apple's position in this case is solidly mainstream, whereas in the latter it was decidedly - and more or less necessarily - niche. Furthermore (and probably more importantly) Apple's marketshare in the present case is astronomically higher than it ever was in the desktop GUI business. Or am I mistaking you? WMS
This resource does not appear to me to overlap significantly with Lexis-Nexis or Wikipedia. Theatre reviews and opinion pieces on textile tariffs dating from the 1830s - not to mention the volumes of irredeemable fluff that fill out any newspaper - are not 'information' of the kind you seem to mean. If you just want to find out about ... um ... anything - as everyone does - you aren't going to go looking for it here. The potential of the resource is almost purely academic, I think: it makes researching the culture and daily detail of Victorian London more convenient for eggheads and dilettantes alike.
I want to know more about what the resource will look like. The article is light on details. Are they going to preserve full-page layouts and typography? Will article text be searchable, or just leaders and keywords? What's editorial policy on the boring and lame? The BBC piece leans hard on a few name-drops, but scholarly editions will have already collected most or all of Thackeray's reviews and criticism; Thackeray is less valuable, in this context, than the dreck and bumbasting that can't be found anywhere else.