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It all comes down to saving money by processing credit card transactions in house. If I am not mistaken they have their own bank though it is not a traditional one. I believe they are the only customer which gives them a way to avoid the banks skim, but they still get hit with a swipe fee and 20 or so other charges for each swiped. It is amazing to look at the breakdown on my wife's business credit card processing statement. Nobody rides for free on the credit card networks. 

I seriously doubt the $30,000 surgical monitors are as good as the Apple Pro Displays as 1/6th the cost. I have worked for some medical/dental practices for the last dozen or so years and they all are fleeced regularly for any number of reasons. The first being they are an easy mark. The next is consolidation has limited the number of vendors though even when there were more the prices were +/- a few percent. New entrants with hardware an essentially crippled because they do not have API access to the software to integrate with the patient management tools. All of the third party instruments have to do extra steps to work. In the case of in mouth dental x-ray devices the choices are $7500 and $10,000 made by the same company that sells the patient management software. The latter integrates perfectly, but the former requires additional steps. One office tried one and stuck it out until it failed but never again. From that point forward it was products made by the same company. 

There are other things like "certified" computers to use with the patient management software. They typically cost about double and are the same Dell's anyone can buy with a massive amount of markup. Doctors/Dentists no nothing about IT other than it has to work and the vendor scare tactics work well.

Will never happen. DOJ will be flipped after the next election and all of these types of events will be litigated for years and years. By the time it is resolved the things they are worried about may not even be relevent

We know two things: One: ruling is going to be appealed so it will be years before anything happens if at all. Two: people are happy with Google search and expect it. The only people who care are the are the outliers And windows users stuck with Bing as a default. 

The first salvo should be giving away Apple Music for free or for a trivial amount to crush Spotify. The EU's problems is it cannot create any of its own products that people want and they are probably still holding a grudge against Apple for the implosion of Nokia.