But to purchase a company which is pioneering new methods of music distribution, and almost immediately shut them down and force their purchases to fit your distribution model is anti-innovation, monopolistic....
I disagree. While it sucks in the short term, it'll actually cause the opposite effect in the long term.
By Apple doing this, it makes it more attractive for new startups to join this space, because there a likely exit. If Apple intends to keep cleaning them up by buying and shutting them down, it'll just attract more until it is no longer economically feasible for Apple to suppress them.
It'll become prohibitively expensive for Apple to maintain a monopoly by doing this indefinitely.
I disagree. While it sucks in the short term, it'll actually cause the opposite effect in the long term.
By Apple doing this, it makes it more attractive for new startups to join this space, because there a likely exit. If Apple intends to keep cleaning them up by buying and shutting them down, it'll just attract more until it is no longer economically feasible for Apple to suppress them.
It'll become prohibitively expensive for Apple to maintain a monopoly by doing this indefinitely.