It has been a long long time since I read a great meaningless article. Thanks to David Coursey of PCWorld for posting an article titled “Apple’s iPhone and iPod Monopolies must go.” The write up accuses Apple for playing evil monopoly with their iPhone and iPod touch.

Has Apple directly or indirectly forced any one of you to purchase the iPhone or the iPod touch? No. We did that on our own whims and fancies. Most of us see butterflies the moment we hear about new Apple products. Mind you, Apple products never bring insomnia due to malfunctioning. They are always good.

Are success and monopoly synonyms? I don’t see a streak of relation. But, if we are going to term all successful companies out there as monopoly, yes, definitely Apple is one. Apple successfully bridged the missing link when we were searching for a good digital music player and a gaming device plus a smartphone; when other companies failed.

David Coursey of course accept the fact that Apple is good in their own game but complains in a very confused way why Apple have a tight control on their devices and products. The contention is with iTunes, App Store iPod touch, the iPhone, music and applications. David’s opinion is that the iTunes and App Store should ideally be open to all devices on earth. How does that proposition sound to you?

iTunes serves you the content and applications you can run on Apple products. If you don’t have the product, the content is meaningless to you or vice versa. Is there anything wrong with that? Apple doesn’t say you have to purchase songs only from iTunes to play on your iPod or iPhone. In fact, you can port/dump any songs from wherever you can grab. Again, there is not a trace of monopoly there.

He is harping at interoperability of devices (by indirectly supporting Pre syncing with iTunes), that’s purloining BTW. They made the investment, they are earning out of that and it isn’t it simply illogical to say they should open up the platform to let others earn out of it?

RIM, Motorola, Nokia, Microsoft, Google, whatever company you can think of, they all sell their products and also controls them. The day control is eased the road to competition would narrow and capitalism crumples thereafter. That’s what they call dystopia!