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Re: Has Apple Become the Microsoft of the Music Industry?

  • Subject: Re: Has Apple Become the Microsoft of the Music Industry?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:26:25 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / Netscape
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__/ [ 486box ] on Tuesday 20 March 2007 21:10 \__

> On Mar 14, 5:42 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> exuded:
>> > Google, in the mean time, being somewhat of a Microsoft of search
>> > engines
> 
> Google doesn't do anyhthing to force competitors out of the market
> besides make good services.

True. It's just people habits (e.g. reliance on services, toolbars and of
course... good search results) that prevent them from switching..

Google says it is opposed to lockins. Schmidt recently said in a conference
that the worst you could do is keep a customer that wants to escape. It
leads to resentment.

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