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hackintoisier said:

Xed said:

hackintoisier said:

When the iPhone ecosystem was small, Apple’s level of control wasn’t really on anyone’s radar, but as the iOS ecosystem has ballooned to billions of users and billions of dollars of trade, I can see why governments and courts around the planet are interested in how the ecosystem operates.

So you're asking why a store wouldn't want to allow a product to lead them to another store where products are potentially more profitable for the seller? Have you ever seen TV at BestBuy advertise about buying the same TV at Walmart to save a couple bucks?

I think you’re looking at this wrong. You say Best Buy should not allow the tv to advertise about Walmart while the tv is in the store. Fair point. 

But you’re not talking about what the purchaser of the TV does with it AFTER they purchased it. Would you want Best Buy to have the power to tell Samsung or Sony (device manufacturer) that they’re restricted from allowing users to look at Walmart ads after they took the tv home? That would be ludicrous. 

But yet Apple has the power to tell Netflix (app manufacturer) what users can do with the App AFTER we purchase/download the app? Once the app is on our phones, that’s akin to taking the tv home in my example above. That’s where your analogy breaks down in my view. Netflix should have the right to tell its users about subscription details, etc. 

elijahg said:

bloggerblog said:

The irony is they want Apple to profit less so that others can profit more

Essentially yes, making huge profits in a particular industry is investigated in case it's as a result of monopolistic business practises; i.e. there is no competition.

This is where Cook is very two-faced: surely if he truly believes in "equality", he should charge less for the products, such that people who are less privileged should have the same opportunity to own Apple hardware as those more fortunate. But no, it only applies in relation to race and gender, as that can be used as a PR exercise whilst keeping prices high.