Two-year probe of Apple's alleged anti-competitive behavior shut down by Canadian governme...
Canada's Competition Bureau on Friday said it had not found sufficient evidence that Apple had engaged in anti-competitive conduct, in promoting the iPhone with Canadian wireless carriers.
A simple statement announced the end of the two-year probe, saying that there were no terms in deals with wireless carriers that resulted in a "significant effect" to competition.
Apple was accused of using its market force to demand carriers sell rival devices at inflated prices. Other concerns centered around limitations Apple placed on marketing and sales of the iPhone by the carriers.
The Canadian query surrounding the iPhone marketing and sales restrictions on carriers was very similar to investigations in France, South Korea, alleging the same things.
Apple's Canadian operations were under investigation from the country's Competition Bureau, which was looking into claims of anti-competitive deals struck in the Country. The investigation was announced by the bureau in December 2014, with no presumed guilt.
At the time of the investigation, the iPhone was available on main carriers Rogers, Bell, and TELUS, and on smaller providers Virgin Mobile, Fido, and Koodo.
A simple statement announced the end of the two-year probe, saying that there were no terms in deals with wireless carriers that resulted in a "significant effect" to competition.
Apple was accused of using its market force to demand carriers sell rival devices at inflated prices. Other concerns centered around limitations Apple placed on marketing and sales of the iPhone by the carriers.
The Canadian query surrounding the iPhone marketing and sales restrictions on carriers was very similar to investigations in France, South Korea, alleging the same things.
Apple's Canadian operations were under investigation from the country's Competition Bureau, which was looking into claims of anti-competitive deals struck in the Country. The investigation was announced by the bureau in December 2014, with no presumed guilt.
At the time of the investigation, the iPhone was available on main carriers Rogers, Bell, and TELUS, and on smaller providers Virgin Mobile, Fido, and Koodo.
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What they really need to look at is why Apple (stores) will have stock of items for months and long-serving independent resellers can't get stock at all!
So what the hell are you bitching about? If you think they pay too little for iPhone workers, then you should not be using *ANY* phones at all.
( Assembly workers employed to make Apple products are earning far more than "subsistence" wages, given the much lower cost of living in their regions. Inform yourself: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Zhengzhou-China?displayCurrency=USD )
Foxconn has to turn workers away it has so many applicants. If conditions were that terrible, this wouldn't be the case. They're paid what is a more than a fair wage for where they live. They're also given a place to stay (I think for free), possibly food to eat, etc, etc. The world over there is entirely different from the world here. Apple isn't going to change the way the Chinese live their lives and they shouldn't be going down that road IMO.
BTW...the device you typed this post on was most likely made in China by those very same type of workers.
Basically the investigation was "Apple's products are stupidly expensive, and LG, Samsung, et al are making cheaper products, but the RoBellUs (Rogers-Bell-Telus) Cartel is marking them up to the same prices as the Apple products because (supposedly) Apple is telling them to." Rather just cross out the "Apple is telling them to" and replace it with "because the Canadian Wireless Cartel decided by themselves to do so." That is what they do with services, and even their wireline solutions. Amazing how everyone decides to raise their prices at exactly the same time.
How is a service provider allowed to hold our equipment hostage? If the cable company tried to lock our TVs to their service, and charge a fee to unlock if we wanted to change providers, everyone would scream bloody hell! Why do we allow cellular service providers to get away with this?
(End of off-topic tangent.)