Stupid jury kills innovation/competition and hands Apple a monopoly

[ultima]

ishiki said:

ultima said:

Those articles involve antitrust laws, and the corporations were hurting the industry by doing something illegal. What bugs me about this case is that Apple is hurting the industry, but they aren't doing a single illegal thing.

And iPhone's closed, but that doesn't bother me. What made you think I was against that?

IDK a lot of people in this thread, maybe it wasn't directed at you.

so it's better to hurt the industry doing illegal things (which apple probably does)? Than doing it legally?

As I said before the problem is with the system and the laws. Apple and the other company's will take advantage of it until something is changed. When company's get so big, their bottom line is what matters and if there is a legal way to exploit it they will. (big business's always force themselves to get huge tax breaks to 'stay' in a city to 'provide' jobs for people, while local small business's rarely get such benefit).

Again Apple, Intel, Google, Microsoft all do shady things. Maybe some a bit more than other's.

I wouldn't say it's better, but the difference is that when something is done illegally, there are laws that can be used to chastise and discourage such behaviour. Nobody can tell Apple to stop this crap, because they're not breaking any laws.

I honestly don't care too much how companies get bigger. As long as it does not affect me as a consumer. Stagnating innovation hurts me.