Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing

Frankie70 writes "Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has hit Apple with a small fine and warned the company that it may face a more substantial penalty if it doesn't stop interfering with carriers' iPhone pricing and the prices of the plans carriers sell alongside the iPhone. 'Through the email correspondence between Apple and these three telecom companies we discovered the companies submit their pricing plans to Apple to be approved or confirmed before the products hit the market,' Taiwan's FTC said in a statement."

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Should be in the US too

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every small shop and large carrier everywhere has to charge the same price for Apple products like the iPhone. That's why most don't bother selling them. When my company just recently reviewed which phone model to get, they were flexible on every phone pricing and had credits etc except iPhones. So Apple priced themselves right out of the market. One of our Apple fanboy employees still looked into them but even they couldn't justify that idiotic of an expense for a fragile phone model.