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APPLE HAS LOST its bid to block an antitrust monitor appointed by the US Justice Department appointed to ensure it doesn’t fix ebook prices.
Reuters reports that the US district judge Denise Cote denied the company’s request to block Michael Bromwich, the person tasked with keeping the company within the bounds of antitrust laws.
Apple contested the decision saying that Bromwich, who was appointed in October, had a personal bias against the company. He then filed a declaration disputing Apple’s claims and referenced a number of unsuccessful attempts to gain the company’s cooperation.
Cote rejected the company’s claims saying there was “nothing improper” about a declaration filed by a lawyer to sever as monitor. She hoped Apple would cooperate with the monitor going forward, and urged both parties to bring disputes to her sooner.
Apple can still appeal the decision, but will only have 48 hours to do so after Cote elaborates on her decision.
Bromwich’s appointment was one of a number of conditions placed on Apple by the US Justice Department. It also ordered the company to sever its existing agreements with the major book publishers, and change the way competitors are able to display and link content within apps on its iOS platform.
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In other news, Apple also lost their appeal to copyright Christmas, love and sunshine
Damn! I was looking forward to iChristmas… Perfectly roasted turkey, presents that open with the pull of a tab, and somehow all the familial annoyances and incompatibilities a thing of the past.
They’d have it down to a tee, then offer an update for it and make sh1te of it.
While it may have lost those rights it still retains the rights to iCrap.
They launched January 1st this year as 2013s
It’s funny how they started off as the little cool company……now they’re the worst of them all!
An apple a day don’t keep the Lawyers away
The beginning of their decline. Like Microsoft, they had a great product and took their foot off the gas pedal. Look at the new Apple phones. Slight modifications and small steps of new technology. Samsung is going full sprint to overtake them in the phone arena and their new tablets are as good as if not better than iPads. Plus they are cheaper. Microsoft only had xbox to save their hides. Windows 8 sucks coupled with the death of the PC.
Does that hand look alien like to anyone else
Yours would too if apple worked you on an assembly line for 19 hours a day.
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