peter

Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China.

"AT&T: A Better 3G Experience"
great slogan

Hopefully the Flash 10 beta will be in the Canadian app catalog....

Really annoyed by the lack of apps in Canada.... it's been six months and still no paid apps.

Why do they hate America?

The EU is investigating complaints just like the DOJ and FTC do in the US and the Completion Bureau does in Canada. They might find out there is no basis in these complaints, they might find that Google is engaging in anti-competitive behaviour... We'll find out eventually. The comments here seem really reactionary and somewhat nationalist.

Maybe economics should be a required course in high school and university.

@kenny goo The Apple situation is not similar. Apple does not dominate the phone OS market, there is healthy competition among many companies. Where Apple may run into problems is saying that it's illegal to get applications from places other than the App store (because you need to jailbreak) and then screening out/rejecting any Apps that compete with its products, especially since they have a 99.4% market share on mobile application sales.

@phearme Microsoft has a dominant market position, not a monopoly.
You don't need to have a monopoly to be convicted of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour, it also has significant effects if you are in a dominant market position or oligopoly.

@VTR You could argue that part of the reason browsers are all free is that Microsoft has tied in a free, full-featured browser with its operating system (which has a dominant market position), making it very hard for anyone who wants to offer a pay version. Remember that before IE Netscape used to be the market leader, and that you actually had to buy Navigator if it was for commercial use.

Opera made the complaint that Microsoft was abusing its dominant market position by tying Internet Explorer to Windows and by not following many web standards. The EU started to investigate and gave their initial position to Microsoft. During this process Microsoft came up with this solution to increase competition in the browser market and eventually made this ballot agreement with the EU (although not admitting they had acted anti-competitively). They also agreed to allow you to fully remove IE from Windows, increase the interoperability of IE and adopt certain industry web standards. Their whole browser ballot commitment is also only for 5 years (i.e. gives other browsers a chance to catch up and gain more awareness as the company launches Windows 7). I really don't see why people have such a big problem with this. The US has all sorts of examples of anti-trust cases that led to improved competition and has even broken up major companies that were too dominant.

Why would you bring a camcorder into a movie theatre to record something for 'personal use' anyways? Who does that?