Stupidity: Apple Must Be Punished For Being Too Successful

Proof • July 15, 2009

It always amazes me when the populists get uptight because a company has too much market share.

With a year and 1.5 billion downloads under its belt, maybe its time for Apple’s App Store–and Music Store–to get some competition. Whether Apple likes it or not.
Is it really in customers’ best interest for Apple to have such tight control over what iPhone and iPod users can buy? Of course not.
With the Obama Justice Dept. seemingly looking for evil monopolies to take apart, maybe Apple would be a good place to start.

I’ve always felt that there’s two kinds of competition in the world. Good competition, where businesses seek to out-perform each other based on prices and the quality of the products/services, and bad competition, where businesses seek to out do each other by crippling the others ability to do business. Bad competition should be avoided, of course, but as long as a company reaches market dominance merely through good competition then what’s the big deal.
Isn’t this a free country where people (and their businesses) can be as successful as they want to be?
Apple isn’t a monopoly. Those entering the portable music player market have a lot of other options, from Microsoft to Sony to Archos. And Apple hardly controls what sort of music people can buy for their iPods. Unless I’m missing something with newer models, I can put pretty much any mp3 I want on my Apple. And I do. When I purchase music I get it as often from the Amazon music store as I do the iTunes store. And there are other options out there as well.
As for Apples Apps store for the iPhone and iPod Touch, again I don’t see a monopoly. Certainly Apple controls which applications they’re willing to allow in their Apps store, and that’s upset some customers, but if Apple iPhone users aren’t getting what they want in terms of applications through Apple then there are other options. Blackberry has its own apps store. The new Palm Pre is to have an apps store, I’ve read. Google’s Android platform will have access to apps.
Again, no monopoly. Lots of choice.
When I read the article above calling for a government investigation of Apple I don’t see someone who is unfairly limited in his choices by Apple. I see someone who isn’t satisfied with Apple, but is too lazy to exercise his choice to move to another phone or platform.

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This sort of thing is based on the Marxist theory that there is only a fixed amount of wealth, and when one person or business has more, they got it by stealing it from others, who now have less. This is also the reason Obama’s “tax the rich” and “spread the wealth” schemes will never produce economic growth. At the root, Marxism doesn’t believe in economic growth.
Steve

Android will have access to apps? You know that Android’s had an App store before Blackberry even announced theirs, right?
badlands4

Is this what we have come to now? That we have to regulate the “fairness” of mp3 players? I bet most people who want to do this, have…………an IPOD…lol

I happen to neither have nor want an IPOD. I download audio books from the library. They won’t work on an IPOD because IPOD doesn’t have whatever trigger the library requires to end your ability to listen to the book once the check out period is over. It is also a royal pain in the rear, until recently to transfer MP3 audiobooks you purchase from anyplace other than the ITUNES store to your IPOD.

I have a ZEN. It is perfect for what I need, and I have not had any problems with it in the 2 years I have had. I don’t feel deprived w/o an IPOD, NOR do I feel like it is unfair that the IPOD has many features I might want otherwise…I don’t really care lol

My son also has a zen, and an IPOD he received as a gift. He doesn’t use his IPOD much, becuase he hates the Itunes store, so his zen is set up more to his liking. There is perfect fairness there. The customer(my son) has access to both products and picked the one that works the best for him, and that happens to not be an IPOD.

My daughter has an IPOD and loves it, but hates the I tunes store, so buys all of her music from Amazon, and it isn’t any trouble at all to download it from the Amazon music store to her IPOD.

Life is full of choices, some better than others. Instead of trying to tear down apple, the people who make the other products need to make them up to the quality of apple products, AND, get their marketing to the point where it is “cool” to have that product as well.
Rezistik

Oh, ok. I have a Blackberry. What I know about Android is just what I’ve read.

So, great. Android has access to apps. I wasn’t aware of that yet.

I bought the G1 recently, it is a very nice operating system with a few issues. My biggest problem is that multi touch is disabled in order to negate any chances of lawsuits by apple. Also known as bad competition. Apple patented the idea of multi touch and as such a device capable of it is unable to use it. I believe that is an example of bad competition.

As far as this story goes, jailbreak your iphone if you want apps not provided. I have an ipod touch and I jailbroke it so I could get things apple refuses to allow. Hell I even jailbreak them for people in exchange for money, it isn’t hard to find someone willing to do this.
Bat One

More instructive than who has what sort of app store to provide for the wants of their customers is the very real example all this provides for why our economy is mired in the doldrums and real growth, the sort that actually creates jobs and wealth may be a year or two or even more away.

Federal regulations are already far too stupid and onerous. The trillion$ in liquidity pumped into the banking and finance system by Bernanke and the Fed is just sitting on the sidelines because lenders and investors have no idea what new regulations and taxes will effect today’s investment decisions tomorrow, and how. The uncertainty and distrust for the government and the anti-business, anti-prosperity policies of Barack Obama and the Democrats has already led to more job losses in the first 6 months of 2009 than were lost in all of 2008.

Meanwhile, the value of the dollar continues to slide while the yield curve climbs.

PC World writer David Coursey probably knows quite a bit about technology. But its a safe bet that what he knows about economics could be scrawled on a postage stamp… in crayon.
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Android will have access to apps? You know that Android’s had an App store before Blackberry even announced theirs, right?

Oh, ok. I have a Blackberry. What I know about Android is just what I’ve read.

So, great. Android has access to apps. I wasn’t aware of that yet.

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