“Industry analysts are downplaying speculation as to whether AMD’s recently filed lawsuit against Intel will have any effect on Intel’s relations with Apple, which recently announced that future Macintosh computers will be based on Intel processors,” Daniel Drew Turner reports for eWeek. “On June 27, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. filed suit in Delaware, claiming that Intel Corp. violated provisions of the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Business Act and the California Business and Professional Code. The alleged violations include anticompetitive acts such as pressuring PC manufacturers to reduce or eliminate AMD-based products and influencing retailers to favor Intel-based PCs over ones using AMD chips.”
“This move comes after the Japan Fair Trade Commission delivered a warning in March to Intel about violating antitrust laws. Examples of such violations included giving rebates to five Japanese PC manufacturers who agreed to limit or eliminate use of AMD processors,” Turner reports. “Though Intel stated publicly that it would change some of its business practices in response, company spokesperson Chuck Mulloy said that the company denied most of the allegations against it and disagreed with how the Fair Trade Commission had interpreted the law. Tim Bajarin, president of Campbell, Calif.-based Creative Strategies, said he didn’t see ‘any repercussions or impact for Apple’ in the filing of the U.S. suit.”
Full article here.
okay here’s the play.. mention apple.. get hits.. get ad revenue..
got it..
“okay here’s the play.. mention apple.. get hits.. get ad revenue..”
yup
The ‘yup’ heard ’round the world. Everybody run, J just said, yup!
Anyhoo, everyone’s making money from Apple! So much for being a ‘closed’ system.
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Maybe, The Steve should licence their name for extra revenue
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The distrubing thing is that Apple is getting into bed with some questionable characters in Intel. Hopefully they don’t get crabs.
J,
Wasn’t slagging ya mate.
Trying to get more mileage from my bit at CES.
“how can they prove it? Call top officials at Fujitsu to testify?”
Well, yeah. Where do you think these guys vacation?
“The distrubing [sic] thing is that Apple is getting into bed with some questionable characters in Intel. Hopefully they don’t get crabs.”
The business world is swimming in questionable characters who care about nothing but making making money by any means possible.
Not to worry. Apple has always been “different.”
But nothing in this world is perfect, certainly not Apple. Why is it that the more integrity a company has, the more harshly the world is apt to judge its transgressions?
Such are the troubles of an 800 pound gorilla
Anyone else say the words ‘gravy train’?
YAAWWWN!
This is becoming a habit – as soon as a company partners with another all the rival companies yell ‘anti-trust’ and start sueing just so that they can get aload of money.
THIS IS PATHETIC! FOR FUCKS SAKE – GROW UP!!
It’s called ‘business’.