news.com.com — France is forcing Apple to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player. If not, they would have to shut down the ITunes store in France!
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test5477Mar 14, 2006
ignorance is bliss, and in France its normal.
Closed AccountMar 14, 2006
"What people don't understand is Apple is doing the exact same thing as Microsoft by trying to monopolize both the software and hardware side of technology. "This is 100% wrong. Apple is doing the exact same thing Microsoft did. Microsoft signed illegally coercive deals with OEMs designed to prevent them from selling competing alternatives to Microsoft. Apple hasn't done that with retailers, and retailers are 100% free to sell any competing players and services that they want.People complaining that Apple has a "monopoly" and that Microsoft gets treated differently are just spilling sour grapes over Apple's success. They won fair and square. Microsoft didn't--they cheated and broke the law to ensure the dominance of their monopoly. That's not happening with the iPod. Consumers made the iPod the dominant player, yet I can go down to Wal-mart right now and buy any competing player that I want.
Closed AccountMar 14, 2006
Of course it would be France...Ho ho, but ov course!
theprezMar 15, 2006
What a stupid idea. They should just get an iPod. Or they should just say that Creative's products should be legally allowed to playback content off of iTunes. Or what other company makes worthwhile MP3 players?
dukeMar 17, 2006
Well, they did help the US get independence from England, but only because there was something in it for them.
thedudMar 26, 2006
First of all a monopoly is when a company has complete control over an item or service. There are laws in the US that prevent there from being a monopoly of anything. So assume that Apple would fall off the face of the world, OK? Then Microsoft would have to create an alternative OS so that Windows would not monopolize the computer industry. You may be saying "What about Linux?". First of all, Linux is open source so there is not one giant company running it.You people should learn some history, because those laws were passed after John D. Rockefeller had a monopoly over the oil industry.
mathcreativeOct 18, 2007
The reason why France is being so harsh is 1. they aren't just fighting for something that they believe is wrong, they are fighting for everyone else too and they know that. 2. They know that allot of people in France already buy from itunes, they government has to protect them. For them they probably don't really have alternative. The France government already know that people will buy from itunes, know matter what unfair business practices apple does.
chevyorangeApr 16, 2008
Funny how the truth can be dugg down.