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When Apple starts paying off legislators and bribing judges to outlaw the possession of Linux- and Windows-based PCs, you'll have a point. I don't see that happening, do you? Nobody is forcing you to live in Leave It to Beaver-land; you're just bitching because your cable company added an oldies channel that carries it.

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Huh? I just took Apple's logic and applied it to an extreme. I didn't say that the extreme example applies to the real world.

You have to scale down the extreme example to fit it into the real world. The 'universe/world' here the equivalent of the 'iPad/iPhone.' Trying to claim that I'm really saying that Apple is controlling the world is either disingenuous or the result of an ill-fitting tinfoil hat.

What happens when the only way I can read a book I want to read or listen to an album I want to hear is through Apple's channel?

It's the combination of a closed delivery system and their increasing dominance of digital content that's worrisome.

that's not going to happen.

It already has with some music. The only legal distribution channel for the digital version is through iTunes.

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