Imagine if MS had done the shit Apple is doing and blocked iTunes from Windows because it didn’t “add enough new functionality”.
And then when it eventually did allow a gimped version of iTunes charged Apple 30% of all the music and movies sold on it.
If they were being Apple like they would probably have even started charging 20% of the album price of every music CD users ripped to their iPods using iTunes.
And MS was a far more ruthless company. If it wasn’t afraid of anti monopolistic regulation it would have come up with other ideas I can’t imagine in a 1000 years to have absolutely destroyed Apple.
Global market share hardly matters though. UN isn’t regulated monopolies national agencies/EU are. Not that it should matter it’s still an oligopoly which is not that different
this is a super slippery slope. this would mean most manufacturers are actually monopolies because they have control over their own products. i don’t see how this makes any sense.
And then when it eventually did allow a gimped version of iTunes charged Apple 30% of all the music and movies sold on it.
If they were being Apple like they would probably have even started charging 20% of the album price of every music CD users ripped to their iPods using iTunes.
And MS was a far more ruthless company. If it wasn’t afraid of anti monopolistic regulation it would have come up with other ideas I can’t imagine in a 1000 years to have absolutely destroyed Apple.