This is the exact opposite of the truth. Amazon allowed ebooks as low as 99 cents, the itunes price fixing explicitly prevented that from being a possibility.
So there were no more ebooks at Amazon for 99 cents? Prove it or we know you are lying.
BTW, there are Books on the iBook Store for 99 cents. Obviously Apple only keeps Amazon from selling ebooks cheap. It's fucking magic.
Actually they did. Ebook prices dropped everywhere but Amazon.
See that? It says "raise ebook prices".
And Snowden is a traitor. Fuck you, and the company that pays you to post here.
If you're profiting off giving charity, then it's not really charity.
How exactly would Apple profit from giving charity?
Apple donate it to something that will matter. Like a charity that does actual research on terminal diseases.
Yeah Apple, save the Slashdot posters - find a cure for terminal stupidity.
You should know that the $14 billion is for all Samsung Electronics products, everything from TV's to speakers to DVD players to car audio. It also covers things like sports team sponsorships (local and national). Of that $14 billion, only $401 Million was spent on phone advertising,
Way to prove your point by mixing world wide spending with US spending, deliberately or not.
they only have a monopoly though because they are good at what they do, not because of some evilness. There are plenty of other search providers out there.
It doesn't matter if you got your monopoly by being evil or not - we are talking about abuse of that monopoly.
So why does Amazon get to set the price, and not Apple or the publishers?
There would not have been a problem if Apple had tried to lower the price of ebooks.
Actually they did. Ebook prices dropped everywhere but Amazon.
Most Americans pay their fair share. Couple weasels who hate America think they are so smart, creating and using tax loopholes for their own benefit.
Not surprise here, seeing Saudis, Russian and American oligarchs vacationing together and sending kids to the same Swiss schools. For them USA is just a place to suck money from.
Errm, apart from the fact that Apple does pay billion in US taxes - you also want rich people around the world to pay US taxes?
It's time for having 3 categories. Paid, in-app-purchases, free.
I would add a fourth. Thus the list would be Paid, in-app-purchases, free with ads, FREE. FREE would be really free. Not even ads.
Would this include Apps that harvest data like Google's?
Didn't Keystone XL die in senate the other day?
That's just propaganda.
Meh. As the other replier noted, there are also crises that governments can cause, which the vast majority of private businesses can't. Wars tend to be an awfully good example of that, unfortunately.
Yeah, the arms dealers fueling those conflicts are actually government agents, not business men.
While it is technically true that both sides have some non-zero amount of money, one side has enough of it to afford the worlds biggest PR firm along with 4 companies in the Fortune 10 (that would be 4 of the top 10 US companies by revenue.
Oh, give me a frigging break. Yes, energy companies (not just oil) spent millions of dollars on research and campaigns contrary to global warming alarmism. Some estimates go as high as $40 and even $50 million. But according to a recent GAO report, our own government spent $106 Billion dollars on "climate change" research, and that was by 2010, 4 years ago.
Nowhere in that report does that number show up. And oddly enough, the biggest share of the money spend by far (even more than the money going to NASA, IOW weather satellites and sending them into space) is going to the Department of Energy. Including research into better ways to burn fossil fuels and "climate change" unrelated things like "energy conservation" and "electricity delivery".
They redefined the word "free" to avoid confusion?
You just redefined the word "redefined" to crate confusion.
Changing "free" to "get" is removing information from the consumer. "Get" applies to apps that aren't free, too. "Free" means "get" and "you don't have to pay to get"; "get" simply means "click this to get the app" -- what you pay for it is revealed later.
Nope. "Get" is only for apps you can get without paying. If the app costs money to "get", you have to click on the amount it costs.
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
