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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
NBC does and has placed adverts on competing stations. NYT can place adverts in the WSJ. I have seen adverts for one local paper in the other and articles in those papers concerning reports by the other paper.
Apple should not be allowed to block a magazine about a competing product. Google should not be allowed to block search results about Bing or vice versa etc
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I thought Apple got in trouble before about something like this. I'm pretty sure an iPhone magazine in the Android app market would not be restricted. That's the beauty of openness. And a good point about Google's search engine not being allowed to filter out information on competitors.
I'd just assumed the Steve Jobs action figure had his approval when I first saw it (
Steve Jobs shrinks down to action figure size, ego remains untouched [love the comment about the ego]). I'm not sure you can use someone else's likeness in a product without their permission. Plus, it had the Apple logo as a stand. Still, I hate Jobs so much I'd like to see the creativity some people would have shown with it. Hopefully some were shipped before the restriction came down. If not, maybe someone in China could make some and ship them out.