No Trusting Corporations

A recent Geek.com article and the subsequent opinion from Rick about Google and Apple having a couple board members in common states what I've been thinking for quite awhile -- companies collude in order to maximize profits. The movie and music industries have been doing this for a real long time in the form of price-fixing. The big four distributors (at the time five) were even ordered by our justice system to give back some money to their customers along with some free cds. Its still going on, too, in various other forms. In the case of technology companies, they work hard to ensure that small incremental improvements take place in order to get folks to pay multiple times for the same gadgets with minimal increases in power, efficiency, and/or functionality.

via Geek.com