Datel suing Microsoft over Max Memory card lockout

[Kasz216]

dsister44 said:

Kasz216 said:

dsister44 said:

I think that Microsoft should have the right to moderate which products should be used for the Xbox. They can't stop all 3rd party merchandise, but they can stop some. Some of the 3rd party stuff needs to be stopped. Look at the Nyko intercooler. It is dangerous and caused several RRoDs. I bought a 3rd party fan that plugs into the the back USB. Two weeks later the back USB stopped working. Microsoft said that the fan did it through faulty wiring(they could have easily lied to me) 

And I figured that that link you posted had something to do with monopolies. >.> Couldn't read a word of it

So why shouldn't microsoft be able decide what products can be used on Windows then?

 

What do you mean?

Saying what can and can't be used on the 360 is identical to saying Microsoft should be able to decide what programs and accessories could be used for a Windows computer.

Which is why it's ridiculious in the first place that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo get away with what they do.

Imagine a windows where every Office program and accessory has to be approved by microsoft.  You don't see where they get an unfair advantage their?

That power itself is what constitutes a monopoly.  Not just them having sole ownership of the market.

Otherwise they could eaisly just liscense only Microsoft Office, and Bob's Office, an office tool create by bob that's 3 times the cost and barely works.

 

Etc.

Videogame systems are basically just specialized PCs... espiecally the 360.

 

The fact that microsoft gets to control on 360 but not windows is not congruent.

 

Liscensing fees and the like really shouldn't exist, and don't on the PC.  The fact that they don't for computers... but do for slightly more specialized computers is mindboggling from a legal position.,, and only exists because of favoritism.