In October Steve Jobs balked at the question saying Sony wanted too much money and that he didn't feel it was the future of video distribution. There has been a lot of talk in regards why hasn't Apple added Blue Ray drives to their computers. Thats a pretty low move removing a pre-existing feature.Ģ.
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It appears Apple decided that their consumer and professional line of notebooks had grown to similar and they needed to give people a reason to "upgrade" to their Mac Book Pro line. So, people were naturally stunned to discover that Apple had decided to remove the firewire from its new release of the macbook. All their computers have had firewire as opposed to PCs that only had usb which isn't any good for importing video. Apple has always been known for being on the cutting edge offering hardware that was best for multimedia. I don't know if anyone has noticed but there has been a recent trend developing where Apple leveraging their hardware monopoly.ġ.
I've always hated how as software companies gain market share they start using it as leverage against their competition and against their customers. Seems strange considering M$ has managed to eak out a living on software alone. If the government wouldn't stand for that then why do they allow Apple to do it? How is the argument that Apple couldn't survive by only selling software.
Just imagine if M$ decided to do it the Apple way, that is their OS would only run on computers made by them and they would then jack up the price of their hardware. Yes, I understand that M$ has such a huge market share that they get the government's attention. I'm curious why the government has come down many times on M$ for anti-trust violations while Apple has been ignored. I'm not a fan of M$ (Microsoft) but I sometimes wonder what would happen if they acted like Apple. No this isn't who is better war but a discussion of Apple's desire to maintain its hardware monopoly.
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