On 02/17/11 19:16, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:48 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> except that apple also prevents you from buying apps from any other store
>>
>> how would you like it if your dell computer only let you buy software from
>> microsoft and microsoft charged the competition 30% for the privilage of
>> selling software to owners of dell machines
>
> I wouldn't buy a Dell computer under those circumstances. I'd buy from one
> of the many competitors in the marketplace whose rules I preferred.
>
> Or, alternatively, I might think to myself, "Wow, this tight-fisted control
> Dell is wielding over what apps get into their marketplace, and are
allowed
> to be install on their computer, has made them REALLY REALLY stable
> compared to their competitors" and I might suck it up.
>
> But I certainly wouldn't think that anyone had the right to tell Dell that
> they *couldn't* do that. I'd let the free market decide whether that's a
> business model customers and software publishers are willing to live with.
>
> D
Going in with your eyes open and facts in front, everything is just fine.
But if you bought the Dell, then Dell changed the rules after the fact?
The bait and switch happened, without you being able to agree to the terms.
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--MCP
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