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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Boy, some of you really, really need to go back and refresh your narratives to match the facts on the ground.
1) The publishers were the ones who wanted Agency pricing, not Apple. Apple originally suggested a tiered pricing structure.
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And then Apple and the publishers quickly agreed to Agency.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
2) At the time of the negotiations, the Apple iBook store did not exists. Thus, there was no "price advantage that their larger competitors were using to hurt Apple" because Apple wasn't even in that line of business yet.
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Apple's illegal price-fixing was necessary for them to consider starting the iBook store. The fact that it didn't exist yet is even more of an indictment of Apple's behaviour.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
3) Once Apple entered the market, Amazon went from 90 % of the market, to 60 % of the market.
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This is when Amazon's ability to compete on price was illegally constrained by Apple. Yet again, this is an indictment of Apple's behaviour.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
I'm waiting for some of you to start talking about Apple's Black Helicopters. Geeze.
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Apple would have White Helicopters...