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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Competition isn't just about price. There are free smartphones, yet many people prefer the much more expensive iPhone. Apple has always been about premium experience. They were never going to join the race to the bottom.
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True. Apple was quite free to enter the market and compete on these other aspects without orchestrating the price fixing conspiracy.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
As far the rest, well, the facts are the facts. What Amazon did was not the normal way such complaints are handled.
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There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary in the behaviour described. It is in fact the normal way such things are handled. Do you say that company's don't submit their legal arguments to the regulatory authorities? Do you further say that any argument advanced in such a brief must then be ignored and not presented in any action taken? Certainly, Amazon, like any large company, would wish to exploit any contacts they did have, just as Apple would. But there is absolutely no indication that anything improper or even out of the ordinary has occurred here.
I don't think we are going to agree on this and we are probably fast approaching the stage where we must agree to disagree for fear of boring our fellow members.