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And that is where we disagree.
I want my government interfering less in my life and less in the lives around me. I have an extreme amount of confidence in basic market forces.
More confidence, in fact, than I do in government...any government. To me, pure market forces are far "nobler" on average than the minds and intents of men in power.
The world learned nothing from the "monopoly" of MS that it hadn't already learned 100 times before. And don't construe any of this to suggest I support monopolies. I don't. And that's one area that you and I agree... monopolies are bad.
Companies trying to become monopolies position themselves at the lowest price-point to drive their competitors out of business. I would hardly consider the pricing of iPods to be loss-leaders. In fact, they are the highest costing MP3 players on the market, and always has been. Is this how a monopoly forms? By charging more than anyone else? That's even more innovative than the iPod itself. Way to go Apple!
I still don't understand the 'don't talk crap" comment. And I was certainly not deliberately taking your comment out of context. How can you say I am talking crap when I'm merely stating my opinion about not liking preemptive strikes? Have I stated elsewhere on this board that I'm a huge believer in them?? I guess you are saying my opinion is crap because that's the only explanation I can find for your statement otherwise. And that's ok. There is certainly no love lost between the two of us.
You and I have very fundamentally divergent viewpoints on government and the roles they should play in daily life. We also disagree on market forces. I'm not going to change your mind and you will not change mine. If you want the final word, be my guest. I'm done with this.
Except to say I hope iTunes pulls out Norway and France if both countries insist on their cases.
There. Now I'm done.
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