> Like a few others on this list I am now pretty convinced that the PC market > is about to be dramatically overtaken by the new mobile market in terms of > sales and new software developments. Apple and others will be quite happy to > leave the desktop market to the web and to open source strategies - they > simply will not be interested in closing this market - let Google have it. > They (ie Apple and others) clearly want to dominate the mobile market in the > way that Microsoft succeeded to with the 1990's desktop market.
I completely agree with this assessment. > Regulators and commentators are now wise to those tricks and will kick up a > fuss early if they see moves like this coming - there are a lot of people > and governments who want to keep these new markets open, and global > networked markets do not stay open by themselves - they can and have decayed > into monopolies, and mathematical models clearly show this to be an inherent > property of free markets in certain situations - we don't need a conspiracy > theory to explain it. > > It is not unreasonable to view this as an early stage in the battle between > two different types of mobile market place, one closed and dominated by a > single proprietary player and the other open. I think regulators would only > be doing their Job (pun intended) to take a closer look at this - better > early than late given how long these things take to go through the courts > and how fast this market is going to move. It is important to remember that there is nothing illegal about having a monopoly. But as Microsoft showed, it is possible to use the power that a monopoly gives, to perform illegal acts. This is a distinction that is ignored by most bloggers, but I would hope that the denizens of this list are more intelligent than that. Regards, Sarah _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution