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DoJ and FTC oppose Apple's walled garden

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Apple is now the 3rd largest company in the US by market cap, behind Exxon and Microsoft.

Given the scrutiny and convictions that Microsoft has undergone as a technology company, Apple is now a natural candidate for inquiry by government.

The underdog label is gone.

It's past Microsoft FYI, only behind Exxon now.

Microsoft: 267 billion

Apple: 237 billion

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl%2C+msft

I guess MS went back up, but Apple had pulled ahead at one point recently.

In what markets do Apple have a monopoly in, do you figure?

I love how he takes pot-shots at Adobe:

  By the way, Adobe’s shares dipped two percent the
  day Apple published that piece.

As if the dip in stock price somehow validates his pro-Apple attitude. If anything, it validates the concerns about anti-competitive practices coming out of Apple.

To quote from article: """ Probe Microsoft because Windows doesn’t run Linux apps?? """

The author of the article has got no CS knowledge. What are the qualifications for being a geek? Apple Logo and Star Wars?

I can write better articles than this guy.

This guy clearly does not knows anything about cygwin and mingw. Yet still there are some programs which you cannot run but that is due to lack of features in windows (signal and ptys) rather than an evil Microsoft scheme.

What the author does not understands is that this clause (3.3.1) was originally absent from the agreement and was added for sole purpose of pissing off Adobe. That is anti competitive for sure. IMHO its equivalent to what MSFT tried to do when it started distributing IE for free.

Yes,

And an application framework might, maybe lead to substandard application. But Apple can and supposedly already does control for application quality, so the only reason for the further restriction is ... monopoly control.

Both Microsoft and Apple created an skewed playing field in the application space to further their agendas. Microsoft did this by having secret APIs that only they and their friends could use. Apple did this by including extraneous requirements to the App Store.

Microsoft has Secret API??? Can you name a single product which benifitted from it???

Let me remind you its Apple which didnt allow access to GPU to flash dev.

Ever heard of Microsoft Office?

This page has a link to Andrew Shulman's testimony; http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070208195343...

"The source code for Windows XP and Microsoft Office provide additional bases for opinion #21 in my June 2, 2006 technical expert report (“Microsoft Office uses (and copies) undocumented DirectUI APIs”)."

Andrew Schulman, btw Author of "Unauthorized Windows 95" - IE, foremost expert on Windows Internals outside of Microsoft...

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