I would add that in a strange twist of irony, Apple moving to the Intel platform has rendered Sleepy Jackson's FoF effectively moot, since it defined the Windows market as "x86."
Furthermore, in that time, Microsoft has been more open and Apple has been more restrictive. MS has no problem with you virtualizing Windows on a Mac (and has recently liberalized Vista's legal virtualizing options), but Apple has made it both legally and technically impossible* for you to virtualize OS X on anything but Apple hardware. *Most things are not technically impossible, someone will find a workaround, but you get the idea. > -----Original Message----- > iPod market penetration levels are near or equal to Windows market > penetration and has already attracted the attention of EU anti-trust > regulators. Considering the highly restrictive nature and vertical > integration of the iPod food chain with iTunes, Apple is again a > monopolist, > using that formula. I would go so far as to say it's an abusive > monopolist > with the iPod. You see the same behavior with the iPhone. > > Mind you, I've managed just fine under the iPod regime, and I don't > have any > problem with Apple (or Microsoft) conducting their business as they > have. I > have always had choices, despite judicial protestations, and it hasn't > impacted me beyond the influence that Apple has had on particular > markets. > But as you can see, the market is already beginning to loosen Apple's > strangle hold on the music industry (all hail Sandisk and Amazon!), > which is > what markets tend to do when not interfered with by meddling politicos. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive from 1/1/2000 is on the MARC http://marc.info/?l=computerguys-l * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
