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“States have the ability to simply say, ‘You can’t sell this stuff…and then unsell it using an unfair and deceptive contract.'”
While the hyperwealthy attract celebrity treatment, when they manage multinational companies their extraordinary supremacy becomes clearer.
Tom Friedman wrote a column about how government policies are harming the recovery. What we need is some kind of grand bargain to, as the headline puts is, “unparalyze” the economy and spur new growth. What’s that mean? Cuts to Social Security and Medicare, along with “tax reform.”
The Justice Department alleges that Apple‘s collusion with book publishers to fix ebook prices has cost readers $100 million. So why are so many news reports on the anti-trust suit suggesting that the Apple/publisher alliance is actually good for consumers? The New York Times‘ David Streitfeld (4/12/12) warns: Amazon, which already controls about 60 percent […]
Imagine that there’s a mad scientist living on an island surrounded by treacherous, shark-infested waters. When ships are wrecked on the hidden rocks, the survivors swim to the island to escape the sharks, where they become prisoners of the mad scientist, who subjects them to bizarre experiments for his own amusement. When people point out […]
With all the recent critical attention to Apple’s manufacturing policies, it was perhaps only a matter of time before the company decided to push back. One way Apple might do this is by granting an “exclusive” to a media outlet that might put out a different kind of story than the one that people have […]
In the Times Sunday Review Jesse Kornbluth writes (2/12/12): There are things that do not happen in the real world. Noam Chomsky becoming president. Unflattering photos of Jennifer Aniston. Apple doubling the price of iPhones so its Chinese assemblers can work a 40-hour week. OK, I know he’s being cheeky (Chomsky hasn’t declared as a […]
If Arthur Brisbane wants the Times to consider becoming factchecking ‘truth vigilantes,” this is hopefully not what he had in mind. At last night’s Republican debate (1/19/12), CNN host John King asked the candidates how they would convince a corporation like Apple to employ more workers in the United States: It employs about 500,000 people […]
Media Detector, a New York Times blog, has a post today (6/14/10) about a comic book adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses that Apple is insisting be bowdlerized before it can be turned into an app for the iPad–replacing an image of a bare-breasted “milk lady” with a close-up of her face. While calling Apple‘s decision […]
I’m having trouble getting my mind around the legal case against Gizmodo editor Jason Chen, who purchased an iPhone prototype that was apparently mislaid in a bar, published photographs of it on the Gawker-affiliated blog, and then returned it to Apple when the company asked for its property back. Here’s a thought experiment: Suppose you’re […]
In a lengthy New Yorker piece (4/26/10) about the Amazon/Apple battle over e-books, Ken Auletta paints some familiar heroes and villains: The [publishing] industry’s great hope was that the iPad would bring electronic books to the masses—and help make them profitable. E-books are booming…. But publishers were concerned that lower prices would decimate their profits. […]
