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Originally Posted by leebase
No, I just understand basic capitalism, supply and demand. I like Amazon, I'm a customer. I buy more from Amazon than I do from Apple. I'm a Prime member. But it's been obvious that Amazon was using predatory pricing to buy up marketshare and drive Barnes and Noble, Borders and everyone else out of business if they can.
I think Amazon has the next best tablet after Apple's. .....
Apple simply had the market power to give the publishers the courage that they wouldn't lose their business entirely if Amazon stopped selling their ebooks. ....
Apple is going to win this case,...
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Uh, no, you really don't get it at all. You are clearly biased, thus the question.
Amazon played completely by the rules, the loss-leader rules that every friggin' company has used for the last century. Apple on the other hand attempted to conspire to FIX THE PRICES.
The iPad is overpriced, like every other apple product and only works within the walled garden. This was exactly what Apple was attempting to do, force both the purchase and the pricing to be within that garden at at a level that created profits for both publishers and apple. And forced any other booksellers to go along thus creating a false equivalence. This has been clearly established.
Yes Apple has the power and a legion of followers that lap up whatever Jobs anointed. Fortunately Amazon and other booksellers made sure the DOJ became aware of it in the beginning so the damage was limited.
No, Apple will not win this one, they clearly were at the core of a conspiracy and the court's finding will state that. They don't have a leg to stand on as was clear in their summary.