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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie Amazon has prevented many book publishers and magazine publishers from publishing full content on Apple's iBook Store so why is Amazon not being investigated? Apple has a monopoly on their OWN devices …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bschawla The government should encourage innovation and creativity. If they want to fight any monopoly (in their wisdom - if they ever had any!) - they should provide funds for creating better and competing products…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram As a Stumptown resident -- the mecca for recipients of government handouts, with one of the highest unemployment rates among major US cities -- it is not surprising that you espouse such a view. Who i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by photoshop59 Eric Holder should investigate the governments subsidies to General Motors, the AIG dominance in the insurance industry, the SEC's ignoring of Bernie Madoff, but instead they refuse to acknowledge that Radi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Stevie Monopolies often form naturally, like the one enjoyed by Office. If the monopolist doesn't abuse the power, it can be argued that it is a good situation, as it was chosen freely by the public. And that is th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by replicant Interesting and I should not have quoted MS as it's like comparing Apple to Oranges The point I wanted to make is that I have no clue why the Fed would investigate Apple. Contrary to MS and their very public…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss I will have to defer to old Adam Smith on that subject: Here as elsewhere, Smith makes it plain that monopolies are bad economics as they invariably make prices higher than they would otherwise be. T…
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Quote: Originally Posted by photoshop59 ya, probably right, gotta waste some more taxpayer dollars... jeesh i can't wait until we kick these bums out. jeesh, you are ignorant.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii Yeah -- pick on the successful people. That's the way to have a successful country. Al Capone was very successful. Bernie Madoff was very successful. BP was very successful. Roger Clemens was very suc…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram 'Outreach'? This is overreach. Next, Verzion -- Exhibit A from that other bastion of consumer-friendliness -- will be in line outside the offices of DoJ wailing about Apple's 'walled garden'. What…
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Quote: Originally Posted by success Holy FK that's sexy! A hell of a lot more sexy than this new Pho soup version that I thought was cool at first. Now that I've seen this unibody photo I hate the Pho soup version EDIT: Would look sexy in wh…
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SpotOn, as much as you think you understand Buffet and the underpinnings of the financial meltdown, you don't. I like watching CNBC and I am even drawn to their simple philosophy of letting the free market and not conscientious morality make impo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Two things: I don't think there's any reason to characterize the people who showed up at Chen's house as a "SWAT team." They were sheriff's deputies serving a judicially approved warrant pursuant to a stolen …
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Quote: Originally Posted by CurtisEMayle It's a typo on AI's part. Their source is Marketwatch (linked in the article) who states $2.3M, not billion. Hey, don't throw reality on a good rant! Can't wait for Glenn Beck to ignorantly use it on h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox You're casually conflating "proof" and "probable cause" throughout this post, but they're not the same thing (not even in Canada, I would think). "Proof" is a matter for seeking a conviction, once charges ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by alicat2441 Taking Apple out of the equation-has anyone thought about the cost of this task force and how well they are doing convicting people? 1) 2.3 billon in 2009 to fund Task Force, yielded-102 investigations…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor This is a rare case where I actually side with the developer. Apple should *encourage* the use of consistent gestures to perform similar tasks throughout all apps running on the iDevices. It makes the platfor…
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The question that this brings up is so important though. Academics is a free market of ideas and business is a free market of products and services. Open source is a free market of both. Each defines value in a different way, with a different "…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rot'nApple "academic community, where ideas are freely exchanged", what's he been smoking! Yeah, ideas freely exchanged as long as they are in concurrence! Try talking about politics or by extension, military necessi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by allblue That is very impressive. Arguably it is the birth of a new medium, because that is not really a 'book', nor is it a video. Exactly, this is version 2.0 (Palm was the beta and iPhone v. 1.0) of a post-desktop…