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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Closed systems are neither monopolistic nor illegal nor against the laws of nature. It's a standard business practice; if you want to play Halo or Titanfall, you get an XBOX--you want to play Mario or Metroid, you get Nintendo.
That's how the game is played.  |
I mostly agree with your description of market mechanics, but I don't like it for the reasons I laid out before. The laws of nature promote monopolies up to a critical size. But so what, the laws of nature will kill us anyway some day. And, thank God, Amazon is not illegal. I disagree with the game analogy because Amazon is in most cases not the publisher of the ebook content which they distribute.