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November 11, 2009
“ Apple’s policies are no more dictatorial than Burger Kings “Iron Grip” on The Whopper.

Apple is about as anti-competitive as KFC | apple, apple computer, legislation last, libertarianism | Thinking In Ink

Great points for critics of Apple disabling support for non-apple netbooks and such.  Here’s more:

Have you ever eaten in a take away resteraunt that makes a point of saying “Only Food And Drink Purchased on These Premisis may be Consumed Here”? Or have you ever bought a bottle of winend then tried to walk into a resteraunt only to have them say “You can’t bring that in here, we are a licenced establishment and you can’t bring your own”.

Oh, Iron grip of the fast food resteraunt! The evil dictatorial resteraunt ‘forcing’ you to buy their wine!

What ‘monopoly’ are they trying to protect? Their monopoly of OS-X? Really? Their ‘monopoly’ on their own invention?

OK. Well in that case, how dare Burger King have a monoploy on The Whopper! You want to introduce legislation to make MacDonalds have to sell The Whopper too? After all - Hungry Jacks can charge whatever they want for a Whopper! How criminal! How Evil! It’s in the interests of the consumer to have competition in the Whopper industry, right?

No, not right. In fact, bullshit.

Because there is no Whopper Industry. There is a Hamburger industry. Beyond that there is a Fast-Food industry. And beyond that a Food industry.

9 months ago
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