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I hate what Apple is doing with their app store. But the fact that the FCC or the FTC would even be involved in this is ridiculous. At least under their curre

I hate what Apple is doing with their app store. But the fact that the FCC or the FTC would even be involved in this is ridiculous. At least under their current mandate which is to prevent large scale market abuse. AT&T has sold 10.4 million iPhones as of 2Q 2009 (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/att-activated-24-million-iphone-users-in-2q-09.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/07/att-activated-24-m...). Compare that to 271 million Mobile Phones in use right now in the U.S. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...). That's a little over 3% market share. So Apple isn't big enough to have an impact on the larger market which makes the government attacking them unjustified. They just gets a lot of hype which makes them a ripe target for an overzealous FCC.

idm 17y ago
I promise I'm not gunning for any legal action here (cause I get so much done w/ my Apple tools) but... http://gizmodo.com/5240272/federal-trade-commission-investigating-the-apple+google-relationship http://gizmodo.com/5240272/federal-trade-commission-investig... FTA: "The biggest issue here seems to be that Apple and Google share two directors, in this case Eric E. Schmidt and Arthur Levinson." Basically, I don't claim to know why this stuff happens, or why X investigates Y... and you know what? Maybe you're right that it _would_ be ridiculous. EDIT: (posted in reply to TomOfTTB, below) I completely agree that it's a separate issue from the GV product. I mention it because there was recent discussion of the FTC, Apple, and Google.
- TomOfTTB 17y ago
  I don't think that's related to the Google Voice issue. In fact, if anything I'd think it runs contrary to that investigation. The FCC investigates shared board members to prevent companies from unfairly collaborating. In this case it's a case of the two companies in question being opposed to each other. So it's a completely different issue.

idm 17y ago

I promise I'm not gunning for any legal action here (cause I get so much done w/ my Apple tools) but... http://gizmodo.com/5240272/federal-trade-commission-investigating-the-apple+google-relationship http://gizmodo.com/5240272/federal-trade-commission-investig... FTA: "The biggest issue here seems to be that Apple and Google share two directors, in this case Eric E. Schmidt and Arthur Levinson." Basically, I don't claim to know why this stuff happens, or why X investigates Y... and you know what? Maybe you're right that it _would_ be ridiculous. EDIT: (posted in reply to TomOfTTB, below) I completely agree that it's a separate issue from the GV product. I mention it because there was recent discussion of the FTC, Apple, and Google.

TomOfTTB 17y ago
I don't think that's related to the Google Voice issue. In fact, if anything I'd think it runs contrary to that investigation. The FCC investigates shared board members to prevent companies from unfairly collaborating. In this case it's a case of the two companies in question being opposed to each other. So it's a completely different issue.