And what about that ? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703612804575222553091495816.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_LEFTTopWhatNews
Particulary at the end of the article of the Wall Street Journal : "Apple could try to head off trouble with antitrust enforcers by changing the terms of its developer agreement, one person familiar with the situation said." René Le 4 mai 2010 à 14:00, Sarah Reichelt a écrit : >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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