Apple Anti-Trust (was Apples actual response to the Flash issue)

[René Micout]

And what about that ?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703612804575222553091495816.html?mod=WSJEUROPE_hpp_LEFTTopWhatNews

Particulary at the end of the article of the Wall Street Journal :
"Apple could try to head off trouble with antitrust enforcers by changing the terms of its developer agreement, one person familiar with the situation said."

René

Le 4 mai 2010 à 14:00, Sarah Reichelt a écrit :

>> Like a few others on this list I am now pretty convinced that the PC market
>> is about to be dramatically overtaken by the new mobile market in terms of
>> sales and new software developments. Apple and others will be quite happy to
>> leave the desktop market to the web and to open source strategies - they
>> simply will not be interested in closing this market - let Google have it.
>> They (ie Apple and others) clearly want to dominate the mobile market in the
>> way that Microsoft succeeded to with the 1990's desktop market.
> 
> I completely agree with this assessment.
> 
> 
>> Regulators and commentators are now wise to those tricks and will kick up a
>> fuss early if they see moves like this coming - there are a lot of people
>> and governments who want to keep these new markets open, and global
>> networked markets do not stay open by themselves - they can and have decayed
>> into monopolies, and mathematical models clearly show this to be an inherent
>> property of free markets in certain situations - we don't need a conspiracy
>> theory to explain it.
>> 
>> It is not unreasonable to view this as an early stage in the battle between
>> two different types of mobile market place, one closed and dominated by a
>> single proprietary player and the other open. I think regulators would only
>> be doing their Job (pun intended) to take a closer look at this - better
>> early than late given how long these things take to go through the courts
>> and how fast this market is going to move.
> 
> It is important to remember that there is nothing illegal about having
> a monopoly. But as Microsoft showed, it is possible to use the power
> that a monopoly gives, to perform illegal acts.
> This is a distinction that is ignored by most bloggers, but I would
> hope that the denizens of this list are more intelligent than that.
> 
> Regards,
> Sarah
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