[Office-commits] r9637 - trunk/campaigns

[sysadmin]

Author: www-data
Date: Tue Sep 22 11:07:12 2009
New Revision: 9637

Log:
web commit by holmes

Modified:
   trunk/campaigns/applevsbluwiki.mdwn

Modified: trunk/campaigns/applevsbluwiki.mdwn
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--- trunk/campaigns/applevsbluwiki.mdwn Tue Sep 22 10:58:41 2009        (r9636)
+++ trunk/campaigns/applevsbluwiki.mdwn Tue Sep 22 11:07:12 2009        (r9637)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Apple uses their control of both the iPod and iTunes software to unfairly 
block competition from competing music players, or competing applications.
 
-Apple does not publish the set of conventions, or "API", through which the 
iPod and iTunes communicate. In addition, they change it constantly; in some 
cases the only goal of these changes is to force customers to only use Apple 
products with iTunes and vice versa.
+Apple does not publish the set of conventions, or "API", through which the 
iPod and iTunes communicate. Rather, they change it constantly. In many cases 
the only goal of these changes is to force customers to only use Apple products 
with iTunes and vice versa.
 
 When the Palm Pre (a smartphone that competes with the iPhone) included iTunes 
compatibility, Apple shot back with an automatic software update that <a 
href="http://www.precentral.net/apple-blocks-palm-pre-itunes-syncing";>broke the 
Palm Pre's iTunes compatibility</a>.  The update didn't tell users that it 
could break compatibility with their new phone; the only warning was <a 
href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/06/apple-on-palm-pre-itunes-sync-watch-out/";>buried</a>
 in an Apple tech support page a few weeks earlier.   When Palm fixed the 
problem, Apple <a 
href="http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/09/10/apple-cuts-off-palm-pre-sync-again/";>broke
 it again</a>.  They made their own software less useful, hurting their own 
customers, just to enforce lock-in.