

Apple's anti-Amazon moves may cost it some big fines




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Remember palm?
By jabberwolf on 5/26/2010 11:27:26 AM , Rating: 3
One word, one company- PALM

Remember when itunes kept changing things to make itunes incompatible with other devices aside from their own hardware?! It was purposely done, repeatedly done and only to restrict and sabotage its programing for others to use.

That CLEARLY defines an antitrust violation.

I cant even believe the other ruling with psystar where the judges ruling actually defined the EXACT definition of the copyright misuse doctrine that Apple was violating.

Maybe this time they can get a judge that isnt technology-retarded!

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Uhh, what?


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RE: Remember palm?
By Tony Swash on 5/26/2010 6:43:29 PM , Rating: 1
One word, one company- PALM

There are iTunes APIs - Palm chose not to use them and instead used some cack-handed hack to make their new phone dependent on their competitor (duh!). Given the fact that Palm seems to have decided to use the Homer Simpson school of competitive product development its not really surprising they folded.

As for Pystar they lost in open court - perhaps it didn't help their case that they sold more installed versions of MacOSX than they actually bought. They were pirates and they got shafted - good!

Basically all this endless spluttering and frothing about Apple's imaginary monopoly misdeeds boils down to resentment that products that techtards don't like can actually succeed in the market place. In fact it goes deeper - the techtard's rage against Apple is very deep because they simply don't undertsand why Apple's products succeed, the advantages that millions of ordinary consumers see in Apple's products are invisible to techtards so Apple's success is mysterious, and thus can only be explained by nefarious monopoly practices, voodoo marketing or consumer stupidity.

Guys - get a grip - you are embarrassing. This is a site for techies - demonstrate some ability to think logically, embrace new ideas and accept unpalatable truths such as the fact that Apple is a huge success because they make stuff that people want to buy.

RE: Remember palm?
By afkrotch on 5/27/2010 2:08:37 AM , Rating: 2
I don't think a single person doesn't know why ppl buy Apple products. It's the "cool" factor and not much else. The "cool" factor has been what has kept Louis Vitton, Ferrari, etc in business.

It just simply amazes us that we are unable to inform consumers that much better products are available on the market for a much lower price.

Course, eventually the truth starts to sink into the majority. Why PCs are the biggest sellers. Why Android is taking off like crazy. iTunes. That's pretty much been a lost cause now. Especially with the monopolistic practices in place.

RE: Remember palm?
By Tony Swash on 5/27/2010 6:26:58 AM , Rating: 2

Thank you for perfectly illustrating the way Techtards are incapable of understanding why Apple products succeed.

The absurd idea that the main (only) reason Apple products succeed is because they are cool has the added bonus, from your point of view, of turning your own inability to understand the dynamics of the real world into the virtue of not falling for Apple's voodoo marketing and thus props up your weird world view. Pathetic.

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Well at least you ain't a Thatcher fan!;)

