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No one is saying that our government, or any government, is a model of consistency. But there have been times when the government acts in the best interest of its people, e.g., oulawing slavery, granting women the right to vote, and creating a national health insurance plan. Apple is only consistent in its dogmatism- banning Flash on the ipad, but allowing it on Macs, eliminating cursor keys in its mobile devices, preventing easy access to its file system, and forcing users of its products to use iTunes for transferring songs, books and videos into an iphone, ipod, and ipad. Apple rarely acts in the best interest of the public, only for the best interests of the Board of Directors and management. Notice I did not say shareholders.
We have a court system in this country, and if Apple is not guilty of price fixing, then it has nothing to worry about. The DOJ does not usually file frivolous lawsuits. There is evidence that the FBI has collected that merits a suit. This is not a vendetta by the administration that was started because Apple did not donate enough money to the party in power. |
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Maybe if "the Government" were a single entity, but the U.S. Justice Dept has pretty much nothing to do with deciding who gets tax breaks. |
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You obviously don't know Apple well, it's always the someone elses fault ex:you are all holding it wrong, no respect at all for that company was only a few months back they were trying to patent Samsung's flexible oled screens which they have nothing to do with whatsoever.
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Here's an email from Steve Jobs to Harper Collins that forms part of the DOJ's material:
Sure, it looks like price collusion between competitors, but Apple had to do it to stop big bad Amazon! Why can't the DOJ just leave Apple alone?! /s Edit Judging from comments on a few sites, a lot of people don't understand why the above email is a problem. Essentially, it evidences the fact that Apple was colluding with publishers (who are all competitors) to fix prices at a higher level; schemes like this are illegal under competition law as they harm consumers and distort the market by artificially raising prices. An agreement to do this does not have to be in writing to be illegal. Depending on your jurisdiction, discussions about price by competitors (especially where those competitors form a dominant part of the market) can be per se criminal offences. This also demonstrates a really weak compliance culture at Apple and the publishers, and the inside counsel for each should be ashamed by their failure. Organizations as large as these should make sure everyone has competition law training, and management understands that certain topics or courses of dealing when discussing matters with competitors (even at industry association meetings) are completely off-limits. Last edited by Ninjalawyer; 05-16-2013 at 09:22 AM. |
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I fully expect Apple to eventually employ the "but the guy who orchestrated all this is dead now!" defense.
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the "this is so old why bother with it" defense is being bandied about quite alot by bad actors these days too.
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