They impose strict control on how you can use your device.
They control the app store.
and they seem to moving towards more control; not less.
I was considering getting a Mac at the beginning of this year. I got an iPhone, and decided never to buy any iThing ever again.
I like good design and visual appeal, but not to the point of sacrificing substance for form.
So, I assume that you'll be buying competing devices from other vendors for your future computing, mobile phone and portable media consumption needs?
If you answered yes, THAT is what makes Apple a non-monopoly.
Having a hard time with this one. Can you please explain how this makes Apple a monopoly?
I don't even have to think about dragging and dropping anything.
I suppose monopoly in English only refers to market control (my bad).
In certain other languages, the word for monopoly is the same word for "complete control".
I was assuming the word monopoly in English has evolved to capture that meaning as well -.-
All Apple devices are closed and restricted, it is as if when you buy an iPhone, you don't own it; you're merely getting permission (from Apple) to use it.
Five years ago, one would've imagined that only Microsoft can do something as evil as that.