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They do have a better product. It's well rated, they're selling them faster than they can make them and the competition is struggling to offer an equal experience.

That playing field may level, sure, but Apple are trying to put a stop to that early on. If the market becomes awash with a mass of tablets, it only waters down their message.

Apple can compete, they just don't want to have to get to that. They want to be permanently ahead of the market by crippling any competition first, before it becomes real competition. They've seen how the PC market played out in the 80s and don't want a repeat that left Apple in last place and close to dying.

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Better for which purposes?
Better for whom?

Why? Because you are forced to use only one app store with applications approved by the big brother as opposed to choosing between app stores or even better putting the app on the microSD card and running it from there? Wait! The superior tablet doesn't even have a microSD card. And why do you have to go through iTunes to access your files? Why can't you have direct access to your own files?

What message exactly would that be?

And if they really have a better product, what exactly are they afraid of?

What is wrong with competition these days? Can you imagine a paper factory blocking competitors because their products are also white, thin, rectangular, and something to write on? Can you imagine if someone blocked anything similar to a box on four wheels? Can you imagine we had patents 10000 years ago and someone blocked the design of a round wheel? Hey, it's ok if you make a wheel too, we are not anti-competitive here, just don't make it look round like ours.

This isn't a trademark issue. You cannot mistake an iPad for a Samsung tablet because it is clearly labeled as such. Samsung doesn't try to sell its tablets as iPads, it tries to compete.

It's always been like this: a company makes a product based on ideas they've seen elsewhere, along with some of their own too. A competitor shows up, takes some good ideas from the first company, adds their own ideas and releases a competing product. This forces both companies to keep improving. Ultimately this should result in the best product (or most wanted product) for everyone.

So where are all these free market liberals you used to see? Most discussions are now overwhelmed by Apple fans trying to defend something that directly violates the core of our economy. It actually saddens me that people can be so blind for a company. Abuse should be severely punished, it doesn't matter if it's Apple, Microsoft, Google or the pope.

Did someone consider filing a complaint to Nelie Kroes yet?

That's rather subjective and market share is not a measurement of quality. If it was DOS must have been vastly superior to MacOS.
I agree with everything else though.

Selling them faster is the only fact in this statement, everything else is your opinion (and quite wrong one too)



I believe you were trying to say "water down their profits", no? As for the message, Apple has no clue what so ever. Thay are masters of lying, stealing, etc.



History shows that they cannot compete, that is why they are resorting to litigation.

And in the other corner...
Go's to show OSnews editors are not all one sided.
Thom, Hadrian on the left, David in the middle, Croc on the right.

I’ve played with an iPad*, and I just cannot agree that its a better product. It is heavy and cumbersome. I worry whenever I put it on a surface that it will be scratched or will scratch. The tilt sensors often trigger at flat angles so i’m often tilting the device to return it to where I want it - having a lock‐screen toggle is a cop out. I hope the touch sensor is much better on the iPad2 because I find I hit the wrong targets more often than not - in Safari or Sodoku. It doesn’t have USB.

The only thing I think iPad does better than say, Tab 10.1, is having the app download progress in the app drawer.

iPad has the advantage of being ‘first’ to market, and has gobbled up a large amount of people who would buy a tablet. In a penetrated market, it is harder to judge competing devices and their sales figures because they aren’t just having to stand on their own merit.

*My father won an iPad at a security conference (lol).