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		shingen on March 9, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The iPad Is Unbeatable The iPad has no more of a moat around it than the iPhone does. The iPod had a moat around it courtesy of the extremely difficult dynamics of dealing with the music cartels. Apple broke the cartels and came to dominate them; nobody else was able to. Such problems don't exist in either smart phones or tablets.

tosseraccount on March 9, 2012 [–]

Apple broke the cartels? Actually it was Napster and bittorrent that broke the cartels. Apple saved what was left of the cartels.

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