@monkbent So do you think they should have gone after MSFT in the 90s/00s?
@arebee ah, ok. Yeah, there was a legitimate case there (and against Intel too)
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@monkbent You've got it backwards. Microsoft wasn't trying to raise prices whereas the Apple case explicitly was. -
@arebee raise prices relative to what? -
@monkbent relative to the prices paid by Amazon ebook customers. Loss leading isn't illegal in the US. Ask any supermarket. -
@arebee I didn't say it was illegal. But it shouldn't be the baseline to bring a case for prices being higher -
@monkbent You're right - it was the conspiracy, the "trust" in anti-trust. -
@arebee the motivation and justification for the case was higher prices, based on an artificial low price. That fact was ignored by Cote -
@monkbent Amazon could bankrupt itself subsidizing low priced ebooks if it chooses. The consumer wins and then prices will return to ...
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