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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark How is it competitive when one company can sell for a loss indefinitely? If other companies do this, they'd go out of business. Competition is more than just prices. Amazon still makes a profit on their…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark You just said Amazon is taking a loss on each best seller it sells. I don't know about you, but I would like to make money by selling ebooks. More companies would rather sell ebooks at the same price rathe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GTR It's okay if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right. You just embarass yourself. This isn't a competition for being the biggest Apple fanboy. Reality doesn't conform to your weird desires.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark Predatory pricing is illegal. That is what Amazon is doing. It illegally created a barrier to entry. All Apple did was level the playing field. Notice after the agreements were made, more competition was f…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GTR Let's save a little time, shall we? Infringing devices are marked with the following: You know, this sort of bias really doesn't paint you in a good light. I don't know which devices are infringing and s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TogetherWeStand Perhaps they should decide Bromwich should go & look into Amazon's practice of killing off other competitors in the e-book & book market, on-line & high street, by overly aggressive pricin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy For anyone to enter the ebook market and go up against a dominant monopoly that artificially priced bestsellers at break-even or below-cost, they would have to be brain dead. Why enter a market where you can't …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ruddy Cote has cleverly dismissed the pro-competitive effects of the agency model on the ebook market (which broke Amazon's monopoly and made it easier for others to enter the market) Could you explain how restricti…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 If Apple "broke the law", then where is the criminal case? Oh yeah, there isn't one because Apple didn't break the law. The DoJ and that dumb bitch judge are free to press criminal charges where the bu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tzeshan First, then Apple can be sued for the App Store too. Second, does Amazon negotiate with the publishers one at a time? Why is this needed? For most goods the manufacturers sell to the retailers at a disco…
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Quote: Originally Posted by thompr The problem I have with Amazon's approach is that they purposely operated at a loss. They paid the publishers more per title than they charged the consumers. This artificially low price prevented any possi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd I am part English part Irish. And live between the two. I don't expect English people to worry about accents (fadas) over Irish vowels. This is a bit petty but Eire is the Gaelic language name for the Republ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd There really isn't any country whose English language name is Eire. Éire my apologies. I didn't want to do the wrong accent or appear UK centric.
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni Which three countries? If there were no corporate taxes, the money would flow freely into the pockets of shareholders and employees, and then would get taxed. Rand Paul would advocate a drastic decrease in…
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Personally I think Apple's 1984 ad was fantastic at the time, but looks kinda stupid now. There's no more IBM, and Apple now occupies the spot of a limited number of almost identical products, all which don't particularly permit user choice. If an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni In the end, the money goes to individuals, who pay taxes. One may argue that corporate taxes are a scam to make people's taxes look like less than what they really are. Except it seems that a lot of this …
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As I understood things, this technology is pretty poor at the moment. I was investigating 'electronic noses' some time ago and smell characterisation was awful then. You could only basically detect the particle count and distribution, rather than in…
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Quote: Originally Posted by weejock I remember when I first installed swype on android, I loved showing it off to iphone users. It's clever, cool and fun to play with, but I found regular typing on swiftkey to be much faster thanks to the predi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Fear of personal data theft is irrational? Certainly, for example, theft implies loss. When out on the street you are having your personal location data stolen by those all around you if you portra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AaronJ EDIT: Ugh. The Quote thing got all messed up there. But I think you can follow, hopefully. Yeah the editor on this site is buggy as hell. It looks like it's a redesigned WYSIWYG HTML editor. What a mess.…