According to IT News, “Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak Saturday blasted his old buddy Steve Jobs’ decision to drop the price of the iPhone by US$200 only 68 days after the big launch and even took his old friend to task for how refunds have been handled for the popular device.  ‘Nobody expects a product to drop that much in price in such a short time,’ said Wozniak, the driving force behind the original Apple I and II computers.  ‘Steve Jobs and everyone expects technology to drop in price. The first adopters always pay a premium. I am one of them. I am used to that. But that one was too soon, too harsh.’”

ZDNet Asia today has an interesting article on “Linux and its identity crisis.”

Reuters writes that “Europeans’ interest in watching mobile television is as tiny as cellphone screens, a new study showed on Monday, even though the industry has been buzzing about offering TV on handsets for years.  Mobile operators hope that mobile TV could encourage users to spend an extra 5 to 10 euros a month, compensating for declining revenues from voice calls, but mobile television and video downloads ranked close to the bottom of consumer interest in a Gartner study in Europe.”

The Los Angeles Times points out that “

[t]ransatlantic sniping among antitrust enforcement officials last week highlighted the growing rift between how the United States and the European Union police the world’s largest companies.”  Antitrust experts say the divergence “stems from differing basic philosophies on competition, its effect on consumers and how to protect them.”  What is more, “[t]he United States, which has been dealing with antitrust issues for more than 100 years and has learned from its share of mistakes, is more sophisticated than the younger EU, UCLA law professor Mark F. Grady said.  ‘They have not been dealing with it long enough to understand the danger of accomplishing with antitrust the exact opposite of what antitrust is supposed to accomplish,’ he said of European regulators.  ‘Too often, they’re concerned with protecting competitors, when the inevitable effect will be to disserve consumers.’”

In a similar vein, the Financial Times reports that “Europeans have little faith that their continent can compete economically with fast-growing Asian countries – but are even more convinced that it should not become more like the US.  The wary attitude of Europeans towards US-style capitalism and the gloom of many about economic prospects are revealed in an FT/Harris poll. The results suggest even the recent revival in economic growth has not convinced Europeans that the Continent is on the right track.”