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Apple Takes a Bite Out of the Competition

iPod maker replaces Microsoft as industry bully, monopolist

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 7, 2007 3:10 PM CDT

(Newser) – Apple has replaced Microsoft as the tech industry’s “biggest bully,” according to PC World. The iPod dynamo has shed its rebel rep and assumed Microsoft’s former mantle as a monopolist, copycat, and bully. “Bundling,” a tactic Microsoft used to... Read full story »

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