Mountain out of a molehill by Barbora Misakova

More than fact that Apple Inc has to face accusations from violating antitrust law surprised me that 1 million of iPads has been already sold since its debut in April 3. While I am surprised, many others are probably rather irritated (and probably a little jealous as well) than caught by surprise. One of them is Adobe Systems Inc, which thinks that Apple’s requirements violate law. Apple Inc requires its programming tools to be used to write applications for the iPad and iPhone and that’s what Adobe Systems disagree with. Their Flash software which provides video and build games would be probably much better at least in Adobe’s opinion, but Apple calls it ! a balky battery hog and refuses its use on their devices. But when you sold more than 50 million iPhones since their debut in 2007 and 1 million of iPads in one month, there is no surprise that someone (greedy) will protest! The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department which are enforcing U. S. antitrust law hasn’t made any decision yet, but former FTC policy director, David Balto thinks, that what is Apple doing is “clearly anticompetitive.” Justice Department and FTC declined to comment it, what leads me to question: is it really about violating law or is it just an old war that broke into the open? Steve Jobs, Apple Chief Executive published an open letter last week, where he claimed that Flash is unsuitable for mobile devices and “closed and proprietary” because of Adobe that controls the technology. Whatever it is, there are still enough Apple critics whose think that Apple make a mountain out of a molehill.

related stor! y (sgx17194): http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100504/tc_nm/us_apple_antitrust...

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