“Wired.com sought a copy of Adobe’s complaint by filing a Freedom of Information Act request in early May, which was denied in whole in a July 23 letter,” Singel reports. “We have located 189 pages of responsive records, all of which are exempt from the FOIA’s disclosure requirement,’ wrote Joan A. Fina, the FTC’s assistant general counsel. ‘These records are exempt… because disclosure of that material could reasonably be expected to interfere with the conduct of the Commission’s law enforcement activities.'”
Singel reports, “The language all but confirms that the FTC is actively investigating Apple, which was heavily criticized for the ban put in place earlier this year.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple (which has nothing resembling a monopoly, by the way) along with every other company on earth that so desires, has every right to protect their platforms from lowest common denominator crapware that fails to take advantage of unique OS hooks. We don’t want generic ports excreted by lazy developers on our iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches and neither should the FTC or any other government entity.
Is the FTC, in all of their collective brilliance, going to probe Microsoft (Xbox), Sony (PlayStation), and Nintendo (Wii) for “antitrust violations,” too? Sounds really stupid, right? Because it is.
In every post, if you substitute Apple for every Adobe and Android for every Apple you have the makings of a fine Fandroid bitch session.
heavily criticized???
Are they joking??? By Abobe maybe but who the he’ll cares about them and ther crappy software. Adobe can go to hell as far a I’m concerned.
@Grrrilla
You are wrong. There is no fine line here. Apple has every right to protect their brand.
I walked into a well known national chain ice cream scoop shop to listen to the owner arguing with the representative of the Brand who was telling her she could not sell her own cupcakes in the shop. She argued that it was HER shop. He reminded her that it was THEIR name on the front of the store and she WOULD stop selling the cupcakes.
Within weeks the store was renamed – ie no longer a franchise of the national chain.
Within weeks the store was out of business.
Apple has every right to protect their brand.
Welcome to the USSA (The United Socialist States of America) Comrades, evil LOL!!!!!
Libertarian?
You smoking something…? What on Earth are you talking about???
What does Adobe’s complaint have to do with socialism, comrades or any such thing?
Welcome to a world where all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins!
singidunum?? I’m sorry if you if feel the need to start your retort with insult. Adobe is guilty of the same practice they’re accusing Apple of. If you had eyes that were actually connected to your brain, you would see the bigger picture. The government will now intercede (with or without whining from Adobe or anyone else) in all such matters (business, legal, or otherwise) to distribute goods and services including IP (that’s intellectual property for you)!
And yeah, Libertarian. As in stay the heck out of my life, I’ll govern myself! I know its a forgotten concept to many of the sheep out there, but if we all tried it, and took care of our own affairs instead of meddling in everyone else’s, we might be better off.
Have a nice day if you know how to.
Now if only MDN had the courage to ban Flash ads. Hypocrites.
All good things take time….
All Adobe needs to do is produce a kicks flash implementation on Android and BB. That they still haven’t tells us everything we need to know about flash.
Adobe wants some other tools to create iPhone apps, TOO BAD. They need to comply with a system that will basically build an Xcode project at the end of the day.
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if you substitute Apple for every Adobe and Android for every Apple you have the makings of a fine Fandroid bitch session.thanks.
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