Apple Monopolizes MP3 Market, Gets Sued

I hope they win... apple needs to get slapped in the face

You think Microsoft practiced monopolistic behavior, just wait until Apple gets bigger. Steve Jobs makes MS look like Mother Teresa.

Luxpro is full of sh**. They cloned Apples devices (which is probably illegal) As far as the MP3 claim goes, plenty of people buy MP3's from other companies besides apple and prefer too. Itunes sucks, I simply do not like it and so I choose to use Amazon as I am sure many other people do as well. Their are several options for downloading music besides Itunes so, Luxpro is just full of sh**!

the basis to this lawsuit may not be the best one, but apple really needs to be dealt with. They get away with so many monopolistic things. remember when M$ got sued for bundling IE with windows? That was "anti-competitive". so explain to me why apple is allowed to literally force you to use itunes with your ipod. isn't that also anti-competitive?

Apple should be government regulated, such as food and water. It's apparently become a necessity to life, even poor African children yearn for their first 'click-wheel.

Yeah but seriously, they need to stop. And when I say stop, I mean stop calling my Creative Zen an iPOD or whatever, I'm getting sick and tired of it. I think the only company that can stop this is... GOOGLE

In GOOGLE we trust.

Zen FTW!!!!

yawn... I guess the lawyers are making money

I hope they win and apple gets slapped in the face! After that article how they sued school since their logo was an apple :|

eklipz330,

I think Google is the scariest of them all. Its one thing to try to own your technology stack (MS or Apple) - annoying but not dangerous. Google wants to own all your information and data - they scare me. If the initial Chrome EULA is any indication, I do not believe they actually mean the "do no evil" mission statement.

Sure they loosened the EULA but the fact in made it out in the first place give us a little insight into where their head is.

Google is like a big brother... despite all their flaws i love google... I haven't had any issues with anything they do... and the few programs and such that they do have issues with... I avoid at all cost... because thsoe few suck a** lol

You guys are idiots. If Apple isn't close to bankruptcy, they're getting called a monopoly and called too powerful. And suddenly Microsoft, which is probably the worst of them all is some innocent underdog. And Google is no different. It's not Apple's fault that they're popular with consumers. If everyone started buying Hondas and other car companies lost all of their customers, would that be a monopoly too?

They aren't a monopoly... no matter how you look at it they aren't... but they use strategies and techniques that indicate that they are... which are inherently illegal...

Apple is popular because apparently most of society has an IQ of about a 100... so that means people who like pcs aren't normal... I'm proud of the fact though that I detest Macs... they are "cool" style wise... function wise... the very opposite of "cool"

Thogrom: spreading the word throughout the lost lands.

Lol.

The ONLY reason people use a mac over PC is because they are stupid enough to believe the apple commercials and because macs "look good". If they actually knew about things called "hardware" or "games" or "media" instead of blogging and the internet, period, they would figure out pretty quick that PC's own the market in everything else. The catch is the PC is cheaper, more reliable in some cases and can do blogging and everything else.

If you try to tell me that macs don't cost more for less you can just keep on lyin' cus i ain't believein ya.

I await the day my MP3 player is called its correct name, not being associated with a company full of crap.

I own both a PC and a Mac. I personally think they both would do anything to get a head. I use my mac for everyday tasks and my PC for games and....well that's it.
Hatred of macs is comical. They're both the same thing....you turn on...type and watch porn.
ps. to beat/get rid of the ipod, companies need to create something new instead of copying the status quo. that's how the ipod got big in the first place

This time I'm going to take Apple's side. Based on the article, it sounds like Luxpro released a product of similar name, design, and concept ("Super Shuffle") as the iPod Shuffle. Sounds fairly clear cut that Luxpro wanted consumers to confuse the two devices and buy their model over Apple's model.

I mean, I can go out and create a company called "Orange" with an orange missing one slice as a logo, and create these cool all-in-one PCs that come in unique colors and have names like iTangerine or Power Tome Pro. However, I shoudn't expect to get away with it. Especially if these cases look awful familiar in design as some company that also uses fruit as their logo...

I have questions for M$ lovers, why m$ introduce a Zune player and software? Why M$ not just release zune player to work with the win media player? If one day zune player becomes the leader in media player in the world and we must use zune software for all your medias, what should we do?

i don't even know why they have anti-trust laws in the US or any nation for that matter...I mean regulation only hinders economic growth and therefore introduces false inflation. just bust a hong kong and go laissez-faire, winner take all. a true capitalist market would not settle for a anti-trust lawsuit.

Luxpro is just like all the other asian companies that take a succesful product and copy it with thier cheap version to steal sales. Where I live there are car stereos from the brand Pointer (Pioneer ripoff) with similar logo and many other knockoffs. Sad thing is that there are fools that buy these products thinking they're getting the real thing. I don't blame Apple for defending their product which is obviously being copied. Do you all blame Gibson Guitar for trying to stop others like PRS and other chinese makers for copying their Les Paul design? I don't. If you don't want an iPod, well don't buy it. You're under no obligation to do so. If you don't like Macs, don't buy them.

reading this article makes me sad. Apple's ad campaign is no doubt one of the best in corporate history. However, they have manipulated many if not all to believe their great services. Apple single handedly hand-picked each and every way you could do your thing. On a mac, everyone does the same thing the very same way. On microsoft's side, you have many options to get your stuff done.

From that alone, you can see apple would like to control their market as well. However, the major flaws from ipods needs more look-alike competition to make them add more functionality in it. Come on steve, add a front camera for the iphone 3g. Its the 21st century for crying out loud.

yeah, no monopoly here.
it was just that average people weren't aware of the mp3 files before and then Apple started producing pretty looking and easy to use/navigate players which can replace portable disc players, combined it to a service that allows ease of acquiring mp3s then there we have a popular mainstream product.
i bet, there's a lot people before who didn't know they can rip a cd and re-encode to mp3 and find too cumbersome and complicated which explains the unpopularity of mp3 players before the Ipod.
heck, many people don't even know Apple until Ipod.

damn this is teh dirtiest thing i have heard, how can you sue some one over product similarity ? geezus christ ! seriously if every oen was suign over product simularity half the food companies would be tied up in law suits 99.9% of the time , then dont forget the fact that most every electronics company would avhe a case agaisnt walmart and their "durabrand" name LOL , apple needs to be slapped with a sock full of lead

I have never, and will never buy an Ipod of any kind as long as Apple supports its DRM-love fest Itunes.

whats an iPod?

Yay! its about time some one back handed Apple off of his high horse with a nice lawsuit.

Maxtor127 said:
"You guys are idiots. If Apple isn't close to bankruptcy, they're getting called a monopoly and called too powerful. And suddenly Microsoft, which is probably the worst of them all is some innocent underdog. And Google is no different. It's not Apple's fault that they're popular with consumers. If everyone started buying Hondas and other car companies lost all of their customers, would that be a monopoly too?"


If Honda made you put gas in your car only at their own gas stations, then yes, that would be monopolistic behaviour.

I apple loses to this lawsuit, I mean who really sues a fricken SCHOOL! Oh wait APPLE!