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Korean FTC May Investigate Apple/Samsung

Posted by Zonk on from the should-have-thought-that-through dept.

freaktheclown writes "Samsung may have sold Apple flash memory chips at below-market prices, possibly violating the country's competition laws. From the article: 'According to a report by Yonhap News, Korean Fair Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Kang Chul-kyu said that his agency could look into allegations that Samsung sold the memory chips to Apple at below-market rates. Apple reportedly grabbed a significant share of Samsung's flash capacity in order to introduce its new iPod Nano. Analysts also speculate the computer maker got a significant discount from Samsung in order to hit the Nano's $199 and $249 prices.'" Adds a new layer to a previous story, eh?

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  1. Re:Jerkz by Adolf+Hitroll · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Just shut the fuck up, and bath your smelly and hairy body. Nobody wants to be you, you're just embarassing your parents.

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  2. Re:Not the First Anti-competiveness from Apple by m50d · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    As for Apple being "just the same," well, it may come as a surprise to you, but Apple is a corporation, not an order of monks. Without profitable computers and software, they're gone. So, yeah, the computer business is very tough.

    You wouldn't know it from the way people here talk about them. Apple gets so much rabid adulation it's not even funny.

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  3. Why talk about this????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    when we can talk about how there customer service is so screwed up. Least of all their obnoxious artificial operator on their customer service line...

    now that is worthy of a slashdot article...

    I love their computers, but man does their service suck... it sucks at their stores, it sucks on the phone, it sucks on their website... I suppose the slug pace they work is fine if you have a spare computer... but if your primary production unit goes down... game over... you may be looking at weeks for repair...

    now that.. that is worth a slashdot article...

  4. Re:Not the First Anti-competiveness from Apple by starseeker · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Microsoft is a monopoly, Apple isn't. Pure and simple. There are different sets of rules for a monopoly, and for good reason.

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