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Old 07-17-2009, 12:32 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Jedi Ninja View Post
I have no problem with that, but used to have a problem with the fact that music purchased on the iTunes store could only be played on Apple hardware. Apple still exercises some monopolistic control over the MP3 player market by controlling the market for content (songs). I think some people are willing to overlook this issue because they see this success of Apple's somehow countering Microsoft's monopoly in some way. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Apple "bundles" just as much as Microsoft, but with respect to computers it wasn't an anti-trust issue because of market share. Now that they're dominating some markets, they can no longer do that.
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