Implications of DOJ vs Apple for developers?

[Mike Kerner]

There has been no decision on remedies.  The remedies you listed are NOT
the ones approved by the court, just proposed by the DOJ.  We can debate
how rational or bizarre the decision seems, but until it has worked its way
through to SCOTUS, nothing is really decided.  I would be surprised if
SCOTUS let this stand, as any of the publishers was free to tell Apple to
go to hell, but simply chose not to.


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
>
> > Adam Engst of TidBits writes a good bit about this.
> >
> > An explanation of the decision:
> > http://tidbits.com/article/**13912 <http://tidbits.com/article/13912>
> >
> > The remedies:
> > http://tidbits.com/article/**13998 <http://tidbits.com/article/13998>
>
> Thanks, Peter.
>
>
>
> > I don't think it applies at all to the iTunes store because it had
> > to do with Apple talking to the book publishers and they coming up
> > with an agreement on pricing together.
> >
> > The eBook idea in this case seems to deal only with books published
> > by the 5 major publishers in both print and eBook format, and the
> > prices set for the eBooks. I didn't see any indication that it
> > would cover other publications in other venues such as the iTunes
> > store. There, Apple doesn't control the prices set for apps, the
> > publishers do.
>
> Publishers could set their price, they just couldn't set it any lower than
> was available in Apple's store.
>
> In that regard, the situation seems similar to that of any content
> provider - I suspect we'll see similar rules across the board as others
> start wondering why ebook publishers can bypass the store but they can't.
>
>
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