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About this siteFor six years, the Internet Nexus served as my technology blog, but I've since started blogging at the SuperSite Blog instead. If you're looking for the blog, please head there. --Paul Tuesday, September 19, 2006US trustbusters to Europe: Apple DRM monopoly? What monopoly?David Berlind can look forward to some hate mail from The Crazy Ones:I've been one of those people out on a limb saying that Apple has a monopoly that US trustbusters need to pay attention to ... The US market that Apple, with its 88 percent share (Steve Jobs cited this figure during his product roll-out earlier this week) monopolizes is that of online single-song download sales. Granted, that's a very narrow, perhaps conveniently-defined market. But so too was Intel-based desktop operating systems.I guess he reads my blog, since this reads like something I wrote about 2 year ago. That said, this should all be painfully obvious here in late 2006. If Microsoft can serve as a lesson, and they should, Apple should be stopped before the abuses get too great and harm too many consumers. That the US DOJ is publicly defending this company and its practices in Europe is, of course, insane. (Side point: But not as insane as people who actually do buy music from the iTunes Music Store. The video and TV content there is now of high enough quality to justify the price, but the music is still woefully under-spec.) The funny thing is, if Apple were to open up FairPlay right now, this morning, its iTunes Store and iPods would still dominate the market. We can quibble about technology all day, but Apple's end user experience is just superior. [ Posted at 9:07 AM | Permalink ]
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