For all you anti-trust mavens, tech-geeks and apple fanatics, PC World published a fantastic article about how Microsoft has abdicated its throne as the world’s Technology Bully and passed the torch on to its techangelic rival Apple.
In his article today, Mike Elgan with Computer World reckons ITunes bundling with Ipods and Mac OS is just as bad as the IE bundling with Windows back in the day. I frankly think it’s worse because at least we had Netscape. There is still no viable alternative to Itunes. The Chiang principle (which I named in honor of Ms. Chiang) states that the market will always resolve all errant behaviour and any aggrandizement on the part of one entity will be quickly be addressed by market forces. We know from past experience, i.e. Wal-Mart, Microsoft in the 90s, AT&T in the 60s & 70s , that this isn’t necessarily true. But even my pinko-social tendencies don’t crave government intervention. So what do we do? Good question.
A quick read and pretty insightful too: Mike Elgan, “It’s Official: Apple is the New Microsoft”
