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Originally Posted by fjtorres
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why should a corporate, with rights of an individual these days, be allowed to settle here when a person would be sent to G'Bay and hosed until their eyes crossed then came out the other side. Meaning a person would never be allowed to recover from something this egregious yet here is a Judge advising the BIG MONEY to pay their fine and move forward. How will that [settling] protect US citizens as well as compensate consumers harmed by the matter? But this is a MAJOR CRIME and the big money better not be allowed to get away again like the Enron et. al. big money.
Yeah Enron was hugely worse but the Apple thing is a better show of how this sort of thing as become standard daily business practices. Look at how goods are prices and sold today, with the advent of JIT (just in time purchasing) and mfg controlled shelf pricing combined with the now very legal anti-competitive MAP agreements. We have at least one generation who now thinks MSRP's are what items are worth because "The Company" would never take advantage of the fact MAP agreements prevent retailers from actively competing for sales by limitng if not downright preventing placing items in sale and then advertising the sale to the public via print, web, radio or TV...
Apple needs to be made an example of if for no other reason than they have trading on their marketing-wonk manufactured reputation to instill consumer confidence in the company affording them the opportunity to sell as competition suppressed prices. Yet the whole time, as so many have been saying for a couple-three decades now, they are anything but trustworthy. When was the last time there was true competition for Apple products in the marketplace? Ummm, well, never...it is their corporate pathology.