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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Ah, another believer in the 11th Commandment! 
(For the uninitiated: Thou shalt not get away with it. Any of it.)
Apple instigated the whole scam because they were late to ebooks and knew they couldn't carve a chunk of the market without. Even *with* it, iBooks was failing until they stopped their competitors from even *mentioning* their ebookstores in the IOS apps. (I bet there's already a cadres of Apple customers who think iBooks is the only ebookstore that will sell them books.)
So yeah, forcing them to get out of ebooks would be a good first step.
I'll settle for the judge publicly declaring them to have conspired and abused their market power, opening them up to civil lawsuits from BoB, Kobo, B&N, and (heh) even Amazon.
Not going to happen, but if the Apple Fen can insist Apple is in the right, I can dream of a world with real (instead of pretend) justice where Apple gets exactly what they've got coming for this.
Jus a dream, mind you...
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Friend, I think you have the facts totally wrong. First, you think that a company with 20% of the market should be whacked for using their massive market power against a company with 60+ % of the current market and 90% of the market when Apple opened the iBookstore? Seriously? Second, Apple did not stop their competitors for even *mentioning* their ebookstore. Amazon is not only welcome to mention their ebookstore, they are welcome to sale ebooks from the kindle app. The reason they don't is because Apple wants 30% of the price for the books they do sale, just like every other app. Amazon doesn't want to do that, so you have to buy via the web browser. What might be confusing you is that Amazon use to post the url to purchase the book via the web, which Apple considered a rather transparent attempt to bypass the 30% in app purchase charge.