I think most of the punishments they set up for Apple are perfectly reasonable and on top of those I'd go ahead and yeah I'd add a huge fine. IDK on the amount

I think most of the punishments they set up for Apple are perfectly reasonable and on top of those I'd go ahead and yeah I'd add a huge fine. IDK on the amount, something at least as large as everything they've made on books and then tripled or perhaps based on the avg price of ebooks before and after times the volume i.e. what consumers paid based on the price increases Apple was responsible for. I think the record companies (et al) might want the ability to raise Apple's prices without the governement ok-ing it so that item maybe could be modified with their input. I think the Amazon gift is silly. You say "What they did hurt their competitors." but that's not what Apple is accused of. Apple is accused of hurting consumers while Amazon profits actually increased. You bring up Microsoft but Apple does not have a monopoly on ebooks like Microsoft did in browsers. Not even remotely. They aren't even the largest competitor. By a mile.