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oatmeal1
on March 21, 2024
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U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPh...
This article actually has the complaint:
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/apple-sued-do...
KerrAvon
on March 21, 2024
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The actual complaint leads off with the iBooks thing, which is a terrible start. Apple lost that case and it shouldn’t have; to this day, that result enables Amazon’s effective monopoly on paid ebooks.
ayewo
on March 21, 2024
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IIRC, Apple lost that case because they colluded with publishers to
raise
ebook prices rather than lower them.
I think they would have won if they hadn’t colluded to set prices.
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