Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:11 UTC
Earlier this year, it became known that the Palm Pre, engineered by a number of ex-Apple engineers, could interface with Apple's iTunes as if it was an iPod. Everybody more or less expected Apple to block the Pre from syncing with iTunes, but I don't think any of us had anticipated just how forthright Apple would be about it.
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Anti-trust isn’t always solely about abusing monopolies.
Apple are leveraging their hardware market (a near monopoly) to get customers to use the iTunes Store, and vice versa.
By blocking other entities from using certain aspects of their system, it may be seen that Apple is being anti-competitive. "
There is absolutely nothing stopping me from going to amazon, tescodigital, 7digital and other online sites that sell drm free music and then using iTunes to load it onto my iPod. In fact, I rather prefer using 7digital because they let me redownload at will. iTunes is top because Apple worked on the whole package and largely got it right before anyone else bothered. Rivals should step up to the plate, and not get a free pass. They should outdo Apple and force Apple to improve.
Competition is promoted not for other entrepreneurs to be able to make money. It's for the customer's benefit. Palm has no right to expect a free pass from Apple.