I don't think "monopoly" means what you think it means. Or "abuse", for that matter!could also be their abuse of their iTunes monopoly still has people locked into eco system.
Oh, and Android apps run on iOS, Winphone devices...?
I don't think "monopoly" means what you think it means. Or "abuse", for that matter!could also be their abuse of their iTunes monopoly still has people locked into eco system.
I don't think "monopoly" means what you think it means. Or "abuse", for that matter!iTunes is a rapidly diminishing factor in Apple's profits, much to their chagrin. People just aren't buying music (like they used to) anymore. Instead it's subscription services instead, which is why they bought Beats last year, although they really haven't done much with it yet.
Oh, and Android apps run on iOS, Winphone devices...?![]()
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@eastmen What you describe is still not a monopoly, dude. At no point did Apple actually monopolize either MP3 players* or sales of the songs of the same. They were market leaders in the US, in Europe I dunno. That doesn't make them a monopoly just as Google Search isn't a monopoly either despite cornering like 90-95% of the market.
*iTunes didn't offer MP3s of course, but you know what I mean.
Google is at 75% of the search market
Apple had 90% or so of the mp3 market and Apple used iTunes as a way of shutting out compettion, before iTunes 7 you would be able to import music bought on other services but with iTunes 7 apple closed that up thus killing a lot of music store competition for themselves since non itune music services could not be used with ipods.
apple also used their market share to fix ebook prices ,
What sort of gibberish is this?
The only content that didn't work with iTunes were DRM infested third party solutions. You could get around it by burning a CD and then import it with iTunes.
I believe the only way Apple got access to eBook were to give the publishers better volume prices compared to Amazon.
Well I'm a very happy Spotify premium customer. 9 quid a month and BAM. Only thing, it does not have every single release. Example, the last Bjork album still hasn't appeared, though i'm sure it will as everything else is in there.So you guys are telling me there actualy are people in this world who go through the trouble of signing in to a store and update their credit card info to buy their stuff legitimately instead of doing a simple google search saying (*artist name* full discography torrent) and clicking the very first link, which will likely be from piratebay or kickass torrents and downloading every song you possibly could in 320kbps .mp3s or lossless .flac within seconds?
So you agree that apple locked out other companies from selling mp3s to apples 90% mp3 player market share ? Which is abuse of a monopoly .What sort of gibberish is this?
The only content that didn't work with iTunes were DRM infested third party solutions. You could get around it by burning a CD and then import it with iTunes.
I believe the only way Apple got access to eBook were to give the publishers better volume prices compared to Amazon.
So you agree that apple locked out other companies from selling mp3s to apples 90% mp3 player market share ? Which is abuse of a monopoly .
Apple price fixed books keeping them at higher prices in a deal with the publishers who were unhappy that amazon would sell them cheaper than the hardcover books in the store. When I first got my nook I was paying $10 for new books and now its up to $15 and in some cases $18
I don't think you understand. ITunes used to support 3rd party music and then changed it. once upon a time you could buy music from real networks and sync it to iTunes. That happened in iTunes 7 through 7.5. All iTunes music had fairplay . So apple used their market share to force out 3rd party content stores and then used fairplay to lock in anyone who bought iTunes music.
For me , I'd rather have actual competitors in the market. Look at zune and zune hd and the strides those players made , now imagine if there were a bunch of companies competing with products and trying to wrestle market share from each other. This didn't happen because of the amount of share apple had.
I don't call buying low quality mp3s with drm on them , then burning them to a cd so taking a 128kbps song and transforming it to a wav file then back to a mp3 . To then use them on another player an easy way around it.
It would cost money and time b urning the cds and then what do you do with them toss them ?
Real network Harmony would actually add fairplay to the files before putting them in your iTunes library.
I had 3 ipods and then moved on to my zune. luckly I had only bought about $50 worth of music so it wasn't a big deal to rebuy. But it did suck a bit.