Except unlike IBM or MS, Apple has never held a monopoly on anything. Its funny how people on Slashdot will both be quick to point out how the iPhone's market share is smaller than other smartphones yet at the same time will try to also claim that Apple is a monopoly. You can't have it both ways.
Still probably isn't a terrible move for Sony even if it doesn't sell too well, as I suspect that they are moving toward convergence with cell phones and that this is a mere incremental improvement.
So any game that I can beat in under 35 days, I just rent and save myself 48 bucks or so. I think Blockbuster has gotten wise to my scheme though, and is trying to counteract it by having extremely limited numbers of any games I would want to rent, but having tons of them for sale. God forbid they actually rent the games for something proportional to the amount of time you keep it. They are a terribly run business. I expect them to go belly up soon.
BLISS is ignorance.