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Originally Posted by rcentros
They're not denying the anti-trust allegations. Those are too obvious and there's too much evidence. It's not Apple's right to determine that "Amazon needs be knocked down a peg or two and we'll break the law to do it." If they felt Amazon was breaking anti-trust laws (which they weren't) they should have filed a complaint with the Justice Department, not gone "vigilante." But, really, they're full of BS. Jobs bragged about how he was going to take the eBook business and raise prices. And he colluded with the publishers to do so. When Apple got its hands stuck in the cookie jar, that was then they started yelling, "they're the ones who took the cookies!" They just need to take their medicine and shut up about this. The more they whine about Amazon, the more they're going to look like feckless fringe dwellers.
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Or, they actually might be aware of the legal definition of anti-trust, as defined by the Supreme Court and thus believe that they did not do anything wrong. There is a reason that the Justice Department never tried to prove that Apple was guilty by rule of reason rather than per se.
Jobs, of course, never did any such thing. He suggested to the book publishers that they adopt a tiered model similar to the iTunes music store. The book publishers turned that down.