{"id":256,"date":"2006-02-13T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/this-time-its-apple-whos-heading-to.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:26:57","slug":"this-time-its-apple-whos-heading-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/02\/this-time-its-apple-whos-heading-to.htm","title":{"rendered":"This time it&#8217;s Apple who&#8217;s heading to court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--113982339361386947-->Generally, news about yet another anti-trust suit bores me. Intended to protect consumer interests against monopolistic suppliers, it seems to me that anti-trust court cases rarely have that effect and are more often than not just a chance to beat up an established supplier when another vendor&#8217;s product fails to gain the market share that they think it should.<\/p>\n<p>In a world of marketing and hype, the best products don&#8217;t always become popular.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Betamax\">Betamax<\/a> was better than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VHS\">VHS<\/a> but VHS is still in many of our homes today.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MiniDisc\">MiniDisc<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\"><\/span> was better than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Compact_Cassette\">DCC<\/a>, but ultimately they both lost out to recordable <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CD\">CD<\/a> (and then <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DVD\">DVD<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Just over a year ago, I set out my views on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/why-eus-sanctions-against-microsoft.htm\">why I think the EU&#8217;s sanctions against Microsoft were wrong<\/a>.  Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/\">Microsoft<\/a> is playing along and stretching things out as long as they can, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu.int\/index_en.htm\">EU<\/a> seems to be getting tough and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/\">US DoJ<\/a> is starting to wake up again too.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble is that, by the time a technology case gets to court, the damage is already done. In the same post about why Microsoft shouldn&#8217;t have to unbundle Windows Media Player, I pointed out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/\">Apple<\/a> were acting monopolistically with the way they force iPod owners to use  <a href=\"http:\/\/clkuk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p(23708)a(1115261)g(11703474)\">iTunes<\/a>.  Now, after years of acting in this manner, Apple are finally being sued.  In last Friday&#8217;s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsitpro.com\/\">Windows IT Pro magazine network<\/a> WinInfo Daily Update, Paul Thurrott reports that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This week, a federal judge in California cleared the way for the first-ever antitrust suit against Apple because of the iPod&#8230; noting that the complaint alleges Apple has an 80 percent share of the market for legal digital music files and more than 90 percent of the market for portable hard-drive digital music players. 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