> First there's that and then there is the eBook price fixing, and who else knows what we haven't found out about how Apple conducts business. It's a little bi

> First there's that and then there is the eBook price fixing, and who else knows what we haven't found out about how Apple conducts business. It's a little bit more complicated than that. Amazon is probably also fixing eBook prices at $9.99 and taking a loss to gain volume and market share. Apple probably wanted to break that monopoly. http://news.yahoo.com/potentially-damning-steve-jobs-email-doj-using-apple-161522087.html http://news.yahoo.com/potentially-damning-steve-jobs-email-d... The way that cell phone subsidies work is completely different from how ebooks are priced. It's a disservice to conflate the two. It could be argued that Google gives away Android to prop up its advertising revenue. Apple, Google, Amazon have asymmetric business models and we are seeing them battle each other by trying to commoditize each others business.