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Excerpt from the Financial Times:The lower house of the country
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Re: New French law against iTunes
Pas des pommes pour eux, alors.
Pas des pommes pour eux, alors.
Re: New French law against iTunes
It will be interesting to see what happens here. France likes to go its own way but rarely gets what it wants. Remember the French TV standard SECAM, different from the European PAL and the American NTSC. The market was too small to sustain this effort and they now have PAL - a European standard but still different from the US. Of course, digital TV will have its own standards and may provide global unification.
China may be a different case. They are the largest market for wireless data and want to create a separate proprietary standard known only to Chinese companies called WAPI - different from WiFi in its encryption. They backed away last year but are trying again. Economic nationalism is a strong temptation for governments.
My own preference is to let the market decide in the digital music case. Apple (really Steve Jobs) definitely has monopolistic tendencies and they attempted to win the personal computer market with that approach for the Macintosh. Their market share declined as a result and is now a few percent. They are trying again in the music player market and have had great success with the iPod. I don't think the heavy hand of regulation is warranted here. Apple is fighting back.
It will be interesting to see what happens here. France likes to go its own way but rarely gets what it wants. Remember the French TV standard SECAM, different from the European PAL and the American NTSC. The market was too small to sustain this effort and they now have PAL - a European standard but still different from the US. Of course, digital TV will have its own standards and may provide global unification.
China may be a different case. They are the largest market for wireless data and want to create a separate proprietary standard known only to Chinese companies called WAPI - different from WiFi in its encryption. They backed away last year but are trying again. Economic nationalism is a strong temptation for governments.
My own preference is to let the market decide in the digital music case. Apple (really Steve Jobs) definitely has monopolistic tendencies and they attempted to win the personal computer market with that approach for the Macintosh. Their market share declined as a result and is now a few percent. They are trying again in the music player market and have had great success with the iPod. I don't think the heavy hand of regulation is warranted here. Apple is fighting back.
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Re: New French law against iTunes
This of course explains why Microsoft is such a small unknown company.
Apple (really Steve Jobs) definitely has monopolistic tendencies
This of course explains why Microsoft is such a small unknown company.
Re: New French law against iTunes
I should have added Microsoft's (BillG's) monopolistic tendencies also but they have their own problems with the EU.
Apple (really Steve Jobs) definitely has monopolistic tendencies
This of course explains why Microsoft is such a small unknown company.
I should have added Microsoft's (BillG's) monopolistic tendencies also but they have their own problems with the EU.
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Re: New French law against iTunes
Indeed.
Indeed.
