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Video re-run: Steve Jobs on tape talking about e-book pricing
Remarks made after the iPad introduction are now evidence in the Apple antitrust trial.
FORTUNE -- Long-time Apple (AAPL) watchers will remember this golden oldie from 2010.
Steve Jobs had just wrapped up his Jan. 27 introduction of the iPad and iBookstore when the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg got his ear in the post-keynote press scrum.
Why, Mossberg asked Jobs, would anyone buy an e-book from Apple for $14.99 when they could buy MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2013 1:56 PM ETPosted in: Antitrust, Apple, e-books, iBookstore, iPad, Publishers, Simon & Schuster, Steve Jobs, Walt Mossberg -
US v. Apple could go to the Supreme Court
The unique facts of Apple's case will make it a singularly sympathetic one to today's markedly pro-business Supreme Court -- if the case reaches it.
By Roger Parloff, senior editor
FORTUNE -- After Monday's opening statements in the government's federal antitrust case against Apple -- stemming from Apple's game-changing foray into the then nascent ebooks market in 2010 -- it's apparent that the case raises novel legal questions that could well MORE
Jun 5, 2013 12:36 PM ETPosted in: Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, ebooks, Eddy Cue, Price fixing, Publishing, Supreme Court -
Will President Obama veto the Apple iPhone 4 import ban?
It came the same day the White House proposed reforming the very agency that issued it.
FORTUNE -- The ironies underlying the U.S. International Trade Commission's order Tuesday banning the import from China of certain older iPhones and iPads are stacked up like planes circling Dulles International waiting for a chance to land.
But before we list them, we need to make an important distinction between two kinds of patents:
Standards-essential patents (SEPs), MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2013 9:53 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Import ban, International Trade Commission, iPhone, ITC, Patents, President Obama, Samsung -
Meet the man who created the 'linchpin' of Apple's e-book strategy
Day 2 of the Apple antitrust trial focused on Kevin Saul's price-matching provision.
FORTUNE -- Sometime between New Years Day and Jan. 4, 2010, Kevin Saul, one of Apple's (AAPL) in-house attorneys, sat at his office desk in Cupertino and hammered out a paragraph of legalese that the Department of Justice has characterized as the linchpin of Apple's illegal scheme to raise the price of e-books.
The 48-word paragraph ended up, more MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 5, 2013 7:42 AM ET -
5 questions surrounding Apple's new streaming music platform
"iRadio" is reported to launch next week. What we know (and don't), and what we should be asking.
By Ryan Bradley, senior editor
FORTUNE -- It's a Pandora-killer; it's going to take on Spotify; it will be streaming and almost certainly free.
1. Apple upended the music industry once, can it do it again?
Probably not. The company is late to the streaming game and, besides, music -- once the core of iTunes MORE
Jun 4, 2013 1:04 PM ET -
The DOJ is arguing the facts. Apple is arguing the law.
The outlines of each side's case were clearly laid in Monday's opening arguments.
FORTUNE -- The first rule of law, goes the old lawyers joke, is that if the facts are against you, you argue the law. The second rule is that if the law is against you, you argue the facts.
Based on each side's opening arguments on the first day of U.S.A. v. Apple, it's clear that the Department of MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 4, 2013 8:06 AM ET -
How PC makers are fighting the mobile revolution
Embattled computer manufacturers are making new machines they hope can keep pace with phones and tablets.
FORTUNE -- For PC makers, Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution holds true now more than ever: adapt to their rapidly-evolving environment or perish.
"The PC industry is like that scene out of Jurassic Park, where the little kid asks the professor, 'What happened to all the dinosaurs?' and he responds, 'We see them everyday: They're MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jun 4, 2013 6:45 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Best Buy, Charles Darwin, Dell, Forrester Research, Google, IBM, IDC, Intel, iPad, Jurassic Park, Lenovo, Microsoft, PCs, Tablets -
The DOJ's antitrust case against Apple Inc. in 81 slides
The best ones, curiously, had nothing to do with Apple.
FORTUNE -- If U.S.A. v. Apple Inc. were decided on the basis of opening day PowerPoint presentations, the government could have rested its case before the first witness was called.
The Department of Justice's visual presentation (see link to pdf below) was like something you'd expect from Apple (AAPL). The slides were simple, to the point and thoughtfully laid out. Companies were logos. MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 3, 2013 7:43 PM ET -
U.S.A. v. Apple Day 1: Calling Eddy Cue
Apple's vice president for internet services emerges as the key witness for both sides.
FORTUNE -- Apple's (AAPL) e-book antitrust trial began Monday and it quickly became clear that the case will revolve around Eddy Cue -- Steve Jobs' point man in the negotiations with publishers that the Department of Justice claims was an illegal conspiracy to raise the price of e-books.
The government's opening statement -- delivered before a packed courthouse MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 3, 2013 1:34 PM ET -
How a low-cost iPhone raises, not lowers, Apple's profit margins
Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty has done the math.
FORTUNE -- One of the fears that sent Apple's (AAPL) stock price into a seven-month tailspin was concern that the company's enviable profit margins -- which had already taken a hit when it introduced a flurry of new products last fall -- could be hit again if it launches a lower-priced iPhone this fall.
Not to fear, writes Morgan Stanley's Katy Huberty in a note MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 3, 2013 6:40 AM ET
