When Apple’s iPod and iTunes ecosystem was first established, some analysts decreed that Apple was making a huge mistake, the same one it made when it originally decided not to license the Mac operating system.
On the surface, having a unified standard might seem like a pretty good idea. This way, you can mix and match [...]

A lot of people have complained that Apple’s go-it-alone stance is bad for online music sales. Of course, the stellar sales picture shows the reverse, that having a relatively simple, unified method to buy and store your tunes is actually a good idea.
Of course, Microsoft thought otherwise, and for the longest time, as most of [...]