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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I've read the complaint. As stated, it's bullshit! One can't argue with such a vigorous argument.
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit Thanks for that. That's the distinction that I didn't quite understand. It is a purely academic distinction. The combination of the agency model and that clause ensures all stores sell for the same …
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse You're right about one thing, many people seem not to comprehend the issue, and you're one of the ones who doesn't. (Actually, you do, you're just pretending not to.) The issue is that Amazon is leveragin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iSheldon Wow- some of the posts on here are really rich. I remember how people here went ballistic when the music idustry tried to get Apple to raise the $99cent per song pricing for years. The music industry and arti…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FreeRange How can this possibly be an anti-trust issue. Apple let the seller of the product set their own selling price!!!!! There is absolutely nothing illegal about that. Many people seem to not comprehend the iss…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kent909 Lets see. I bought two books this past week. I went to iBooks and saw that they were more expensive there, than Amazon. So I bought them in Kindle format from Amazon. What is the problem here? If this is tru…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Still waiting for you to provide evidence that Apple participated in collusion to fix prices. "We'll let you set whatever price you want and we keep 30%" is the exact opposite of price fixing. Err. Exce…
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I know many people here are Apple fans...but look at this objectively. Since Apple's price fixing with publishers (and make no mistake, that's what the "minimum book price" is exactly), the cost of new novels for eBooks has gone up from $9.99 to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ericblr So it IS a Trojan. Jeeze the tech media is so ready for a virus to hit macs they don't even recognize the difference anymore! It's kind of in a middle ground. A trojan typically does not exploit security…
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Quote: Originally Posted by brutus009 I just thought that part was worth repeating. If Amazon was guilty of predatory pricing, a DoJ lawsuit would've been eminent. It doesn't matter, though. That is completely not relevant to this thread…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gerbinto No, the issue is as follows. Amazon was paying what the publishers wanted for the e-books and then undercutting the price when they sold it. The publisher's lost no money from this, Amazon did. However, the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Then they'd have to go after $0.99 music. No, that's an absurd comparison. If Apple bought albums at $10 and sold them for $0.99, it'd be predatory pricing. It is not predatory pricing to invent new d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by diplication We're on the same page. From my perspective Amazon was the one using unfair business practices, Amazon was setting the price to drive the competition out of business. Apple appears to be more free market …
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 I didn't think America were such a bunch of socialists, government dictated pricing regimes are no substitute for a free market. Enjoy comrades. The point is collusion to pricefix prohibits a free market. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Apple: "Fine." And then they lower the price of all their eBooks to $0.99 and drive every other bookstore out of business. Apple: "Is that what you wanted, DoJ?" Which would promptly lead to DOJ l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleStud I agree the stock is completely undervalued, as the article points out again, and again, and again. And as anyone who is so inclined can see for themselves if they analyzed Apple's 10q/k's (tip of the hat to …
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Quote: Originally Posted by thompr I don't think Apple is losing any sleep over a comparison between their market share and the COMBINED market share of a bunch of devices that happen to share the "Android" name but very little else. This kind…
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Every time I come to read this forum, it kills me. It's kind of like looking in from an observation window at a psych ward -- some of you are truly out to lunch and obviously exist in a reality parallel to the one the rest of one live in. Quote:…
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I really wish Steve Jobs had watched this video and understood it: http://devour.com/video/everything-is-a-remix-part-3/
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Quote: Originally Posted by rcoleman1 Here we go again. Apple LEADS the pack and everyone else FOLLOWS with pointless comments. Steve would be proud. Apple bought Siri. Siri was a spinoff of a government research project. Apple pulled Siri…