Luxpro Sues Apple for Damages and 'Power Abuse'

Dystopian Rebel writes "The Financial Times reports that Taiwanese company Luxpro (discussed on Slashdot last year) intends to sue Apple for US$100M for 'lost revenue caused by Apple's abuse of their global power.' In 2005, Apple obtained an injunction against Luxpro's Super Shuffle/Super Tangent but the Taiwanese Supreme Court has overturned the injunction, opening the door to Luxpro's legal action. From the article: 'The [Luxpro] product had almost the same measurements and weight, came in a white plastic casing and had similar buttons on the front. Its name, Super Shuffle, also closely resembled the original.'"

Comments

Re:If you ask me

[Anonymous Coward]

Does Dell have a monopoly on Dell machines?

Nope. Proprietary PCs are as dead as Dillinger. You can go to any store in the USA and buy replacement parts or peripherals which will work on Dell PCs. But if you want Apple stuff, you have to go to the Apple store.

I had a friend who owned a computer store specializing in used equipment. They did a LOT of business in used Macs. But guess what? Three months before Apple opened up an Apple Store, they served him with a cease and desist, which tried to prevent him from selling used Apple equipment. Furthermore, the people at the Apple Store started telling people his store did bad work, sold bad equipment, etc... in other words, they were baselessly slandering his business in order to extend their monopoly to the Apple retail and repair market.

Apple has a long and glorious history of making sure anything Apple related is their own little proprietary kingdom. It started with them attacking companies legally licensed to make Apple compatible equipment, then to them flagrantly violating sales contracts with vendors, and now their evil empire has finally extended all the way to the end of the supply chain, where they are now the sole venue available to consumers. All with the smiling blessings of the same people who bash Microsoft and pule about them being a monopoly.

Apple has earned Slashdot's "Favored Monopoly Status". Anything Apple does is good, but anything MS does is evil: that's the law around here.

Re:Wrong-o!

[Mister Whirly]

Here, I fixed it for you...

"I buy iPods because...I'm a Mac user" - the rest is all smoke and mirrors.