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By: Jurg Bollinger

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:20:43 +0000

“I think companies acting evilly is a function of market share. Microsoft acts evilly because they have a monopoly. Google acts evilly in online ads because they pretty much have a monopoly. Apple has the capacity for evil and if they dominate markets like Microsoft has, will likely become evil. But they have yet to do that. At this point, Apple is about one fiftieth as evil as Microsoft. Plus their stuff works better.” – deathByChiChi

Owning 73% of the MP3 market comes real close to being a monopoly and how they have maintained the lead would be considered predatory by many people. I’m sorry but Apple is no more of a friend to the consumer than Microsoft or Google. Why is it that when Apple releases new “features” like the genius stuff for the IPods I have to buy new hardware to get that feature? The difference between the 3g and 4g Nano is that they turn the screen so you flip the Ipod to the side now and it has an accelerometer. Outside of that and more capacity it is the same. There is no reason to limit the software capabilities unless you are trying to be predatory and forcing people to up Apple’s hardware sales.

By: faddah

faddah — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:06:06 +0000

eh. ryan has some points. if you believe record/movie/tv companies haven’t renegotiated those original iTunes store contracts several times over and are now not paying far less that 30 off the top, then i have some waterfront gulf property i’d like you to consider investing in. plus, as he says, vudu was not the big critical acclaim you think it was and the selection sux.

but other things you get right. so its mixed.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:29:47 +0000

“Shall I look forward to seeing you join the Enderle group?”

You have to marry Rob Enderle first.

Seriously, Dan, it’d be nice to see you address Block’s very real concerns with your article instead of acting like, well, Enderle.

By: Commentard

Commentard — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:09:12 +0000

How far the mighty have fallen, eh?

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:47:38 +0000

But Dan, what’s an “iTouch”? :-/

By: Podesta

Podesta — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:22:25 +0000

The people who have pointed out the errors in your article, including Ryan, are right, Dan. At the very least, you should acknowledge your errors and offer corrections.

By: Vega

Vega — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:37:18 +0000

I tried to think about something snarky to say about the way you deal with fact-oriented criticism, but I feel too stunned by the total douchyness that you have shown ever since you opened your ‘own’ Blog. I’ll just say this:

Man, are you childish.

Looks like your occasionally brilliant FSJ posts were just an intermittent high. The current stuff is much more in line with the badly researched drivel you used to write about the Microsoft / SCO / Linux case. Congratulations.

By: iKEANE

iKEANE — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:33:43 +0000

Does your contract with Newsweek give you a bonus every time you slam SJ or Apple?

I like Forbes better than Newsweek, and I liked FSJ better than RDL.

But whatever.

By: FBO

FBO — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:15:08 +0000

Dan, I wanted to comment over there, but they wanted me to login. I don’t like to login to anything, it ties me down, and allows The Man to find me. And until I am The Man, I don’t trust The Man.

- Barry