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EU antitrust regulators monitoring distribution of Apple’s iPhone, iPad

Friday, March 22, 2013 · 8:36 am · 7 Comments

“EU antitrust regulators have been informed of possible anti-competitive issues related to distribution of Apple’s iPhone and iPad tablets,” Foo Yun Chee reports for Reuters.

“‘The Commission has been made aware of Apple’s distribution practices for iPhone and iPad. There have been no formal complaints though,’ Antoine Colombani told a daily briefing,” Chee reports.

Brief article in full here.

MacDailyNews Take: Related to distribution of iPhone and iPad? Carrier haves and have-nots?

UPDATE: 1:31pm EDT: Yup. See related article below.

Related article:
Why Apple’s iPad and iPhone distribution faces EU antitrust scrutiny – March 22, 2013

Categories: News

Tags: antitrust, Apple, EU, European Union, iPad, iphone, legal

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7 Comments

Mac95

Friday, March 22, 2013 - 8:41 am · Reply

Ah, and anything Samsung does supposedöy is in order, right.
silverhawk1

Friday, March 22, 2013 - 8:50 am · Reply

Reuters must have received samdungs weekly check. The Beeb received theirs yesterday.
- botvinnik
  
  Friday, March 22, 2013 - 9:05 am · Reply
  
  lol
alanaudio

Friday, March 22, 2013 - 8:59 am · Reply

There’s a little more explanation here -
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/business/global/iphone-contracts-with-carriers-under-scrutiny-in-europe.html?_r=1&

The EU are obliged to investigate because a complaint has been made to them, but it doesn’t look as though there is any evidence of actual anti-trust violation by Apple.
- quiviran
  
  Friday, March 22, 2013 - 10:33 am · Reply
  
  Pretty weak writing, but good info. Too many toss-off lines like:
  • Apple’s growth has slowed in recent quarters, and the company’s stock price is down 37 percent since September
  
  • recent investigation of Apple and four major book publishing groups that were trying to fix prices for e-books through selling agreements
  
  that aren’t fact based.
  - alanaudio
    
    Friday, March 22, 2013 - 11:11 am · Reply
    
    Yes, the NYT article is pretty lousy, but it’s considerably better than the short piece that Reuters have published and which will be widely reprinted all over the world.
    
    Reuters has long since given up on fact-based reporting, which is a shame because they used to have an excellent reputation.
GM

Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 4:22 am · Reply

It’s Europe, who cares? Were we afraid of the Germans when they attacked Pearl Harbor? Hell no!