On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Brad Knowles wrote: > So, Apple is protecting their users from being locked into any other content > distribution channel. That's not anti-competitive, regardless of how much > the other industry giants might scream and wail and gnash their teeth. It's > actually the other providers that are being forced to open up, and then only > if they want to make that distribution channel available on iOS.
Think about it this way -- when Barnes & Noble sets up a book store, do they allow competing book store chains to come in and set up their own shop inside and then force those customers to check out only at the non-B&N registers? In this case, Apple is allowing other distribution channels to be set up on the devices that they designed and built and continue to support, which is more than B&N would do for any other competitor book store chain. In return, Apple is requiring that they be given equal content access and price equity with the competing distribution channel, and customers have to be allowed to choose which distribution channel they want to use. That seems more than fair to me. -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
