EnTech: Apple's Bid to Disqualify Antitrust Compliance Monitor Rejected

Apple's Bid to Disqualify Antitrust Compliance Monitor Rejected

I guess the appeals process is sufficiently opaque we will not see the result until a judge announces it. But to have Apple judged as "per se illegal" going in (of anti-trust), when Amazon had a 90% market share, and the book vendors were complaining about losing pricing rights to their own products, does not pass the smell test.

What Amazon did was akin to dumping.
That is per se illegal in this country.
Rocketman

And after all if those years, the same debunked and wrong claims.
Amazon was not dumping prices, publishers were not losing their pricing rights and having less than 90% of marketshare is not illegal.
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So, deciding guilt ahead of time (because "innocent until proven guilty" is so old-fashioned), then picking your unqualified friend as overseer, and allowing him to charge outrageous rates for himself,

Then you will be glad to know that nothing of what you claim really happened.
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This whole case is a corrupt farce.

Apple should never have been charged in the first place. Amazon had a monopoly on books and Apple introduced much-needed competition.
As it is, digital books are far too expensive. The same goes for digital music, films, tv programmes, audiobooks, magazines and newspapers. Only when we have digital content that is substantially cheaper than physical will we reach Digital 3.0. Perhaps a 13" iPad would help spur that day on.
Amazon didn't have any monopoly and Apple finished competition between stores