Comments on: Monopoly? What Monopoly?

By: darwin

darwin — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:50:23 +0000

Also, claiming there’s competition between places that sell CD’s and online music stores is kind of like claiming there’s competition between movie theatres and stores that sell DVDs. Considering that most people who use iTunes own mp3 players, and thus don’t have much use for cds, it’s unlikely that there’s much customer overlap.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:56:19 +0000

I may be naive here, but was music sales ever considered to be a monopoly for one company? When I was young, there were many stores to buy CDs. Big stores and small stores. The small stores were mostly specialty needs - lots of cds that the big guys didn’t have. While the medium is different now, I never suspected a place like WalMart had a monopoly on the music that people buy.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:37:25 +0000

I disagree. Competition between Wal-Mart and iTunes shows perfect how neither of these large corporations have a monopoly on selling music.

By: darwin

darwin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:55:43 +0000

Lol, you’re ‘companies don’t have monopolies’ argument isn’t really helped by bringing up iTunes…