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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The point is that whither or not what Apple did is illegal depends if you use the per se definition of anti-trust as Cote did, or you use the rule of reason definition of anti-trust, as the Supreme Court instructed in Leegan. In anti-trust, your market position is extremely important. Apple had no market position since they had not entered into the market yet.
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That depends on your definition of market position. Sure, ebooks they didn't have a whole lot, but they had other forms of entertainment (e.g. music). Digital music in iTunes has and had a big chunk of the market - not a monopoly, but neither does Amazon have one. Apple bullied their way into ebooks by leaning against the publishers with their weight of success with music.