Implications of DOJ vs Apple for developers?

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Sat Aug 24 21:31:22 EDT 2013


And in addition, this "conspiracy" is by proxy.  Does anyone else know of a
case where a conspiracy by proxy was found to violate this statute?


On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>wrote:

> 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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