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>allow for two years rival e-book retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to provide links from their e-book apps to their own e-bookstores without paying any
by ben1040 13y ago
>allow for two years rival e-book retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to provide links from their e-book apps to their own e-bookstores without paying any fee or commission to Apple on sales made through them.
This doesn't exactly seem fair to all the other companies who would still have to give up 30% commission over to Apple but can't raise their price (e.g. Netflix, Dropbox, etc).
- anigbrowl 13y agoThose firms weren't injured by Apple's participation in a conspiracy (that we know about).
- dragonwriter 13y ago> This doesn't exactly seem fair to all the other companies who would still have to give up 30% commission over to Apple but can't raise their price (e.g. Netflix, Dropbox, etc). The term at issue is a remedy for harms done by Apple's role in the ebook publisher price fixing scheme, which isn't relevant to Netflix, Dropbox, etc. Insofar as the kind of thing Apple did here would be relevant to app makers in markets other than the ebook market, those app makers are beneficiaries of the provisions of the propsed remedy that exist to prevent Apple from engaging in schemes that are similar to the ebook scheme in other markets.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoI could understand why apple would get a 30% of scamware f2p shit recoded flash games that couldn't exist without their ripoff platform. But why should they get 30% of book sales when they don't even care about piracy or make any serious efforts to stop it?
- coldcode 13y agoAmazon wasn't harmed one iota yet now they get freebies from the DOJ. In fact the only people "harmed" by this are the very people who get nothing. Mind you this is the same DOJ that sees nothing wrong with the NSA, FBI and their ilk recording our emails, browser history, phone calls and whatever else they feel like collecting. But sure, Amazon isn't making a profit lets give them some.