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Originally Posted by kennyc
And I'm thinking you don't understand the issue or the reasons for what went down.
This isn't about Apple Price-fixing, but that was the result of the Agency Model which Apple pushed for for a number of reasons including its own walled-garden pricing model and the need to attack the competition -- Amazon as well as the other ebook sellers -- using it. What this is about is collusion and conspiracy with apple as the ringleader and price fixing is a part of it hidden behind the agency model.
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You mean that Apple should be whacked for agreeing to let the publishers to use a price model that is perfectly legal and was already being negotiated by B&N, one of those other ebook sellers who you say that Apple was conspiring to attack using this model? The publishers have been pushing the agency pricing for a while, it's just with Amazon's monopoly (90+% of the market at the time) they couldn't get any leverage.
Once again, you can't fix prices if you aren't setting prices. Yes, I get that you hate Apple's walled garden and thus Apple is evil and should be punished. But look at the facts. Apple wasn't setting the prices, the prices didn't go up, there was zero evidence shown that Apple made any attempt to fix prices.