Some folks see monopolies that aren’t really there, argues Megan McArdle: Apple has a monopoly over [iTunes, iPhone, iPod] only in the trivial sense that P&G has a monopoly over Charmin, and I have a monopoly over the chocolate cake I baked last night. Neither “monopoly” is withholding a critical good from people, or forcing them to pay an extortionate price for same. If you don’t want to buy your music from iTunes, you can trot right over and buy MP3s from Amazon. And they’ll play j
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