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elroth wrote: » Yeah, and when you sell a CD through a record store, the store takes 50%. Have you filed a complaint about that also? When you buy a CD player at Best Buy, you aren't required to only buy CDs at Best Buy. Apple has made itself the…
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thataveragejoe wrote: » Loss Leaders are not illegal. Predatory pricing, if it could be established, is... and has been since the Sherman Act
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"... even though Amazon was actually paying more money to the publishers than it was charging customers for the books." I love these stories. So Amazon was selling below its marginal cost to maintain its position in the market, which is itself a vi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by pragmatous You're just wrong. "But the reason patents are especially bad for software is that software isn’t some single invention where you can point to a single new idea. Not at all. All relevan…
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Quote: Originally Posted by bighype You're obviously an Android troll. There's so many ways to have scroll bars on a window (go look at your favorite desktop OS) and none of these are patented or the patents have long expired. When Ap…
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Hiding interface items until some event occurs, for whatever reason, is not even close to an original concept. So Apple applied it to scrollbars, big deal.
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Quote: Originally Posted by pragmatous Because it's software development and software development ideas doesn't deserve the right to be patented. When you're building a house and the basic fundamental tools are patented so only …
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Quote: Originally Posted by aderutter I'm a developer. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. If you don't want to abide by the store owners rules, find another store owner. Please tell us, oh wise one, where this mythical "ot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by neosum John Doe from across the street can't force you to sell his cherries if you don't want to. This is more akin to John Doe selling a pie tin through iTunes and then Apple insisting that they f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil So they can sell their stuff on their websites, accessible through Safari on iDevices. There's nothing for Apple to lose. You can skateboard on the street and public sidewalk but not on m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by charlituna They can if that's the contract that they set up with WoW. Apple has the right to make what rules they want. You don't like it, don't do business with them. Sure it means you might have to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sandman619 Apple provides the ecommerce solution for the developer: • Bandwidth • Servers • Billing system to customers • Payment system to developers • APIs to make it all happen seamlessly t…
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Somebody please file a restraint of trade lawsuit against Apple. this is getting stupid.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta ROTFLMAO. I hope you realize that the small percentage of people who have problems are grossly overrepresented in a poll like that. That's like polling a help desk and asking how many customers …
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Quote: Originally Posted by AndroidUser Siri is one of the main features in the 4S. You just don't advertise a "beta" product as the main focal point of a product just to sell it. Shame on Apple. Exactly! Google being cutsie …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jukes I agree with this. US law generally seems to give lots of legal wiggle room to advertisers and their "disclaimers" in cases like this though. It's basically a value judgement we've made as a cou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Macky the Macky Some customers are acting all alpha over beta software. No wonder Siri thinks some people should own a Nokis 800, just out of spite. Honestly, you shouldn't be marketing a "beta" fe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Gatorguy He's regarded as one of the most brilliant and well-respected jurists in the US. The most cited legal scholar of the century with numerous books to his credit, Florian Mueller refers to him as a "rockstar" in…
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Hooray for pointless debates about the ways English arbitrarily chooses to pluralize latin nouns.
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What web content is Apple TV displaying? It is fetching data over the Internet, but the web is only a small subset of the Internet.