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Apple's Beef With Nokia Gets Intense, All Withings Products Pulled From Online Store (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on from the fighting-back dept.

In less than a week after Nokia sued Apple for patent infringement in courts around the world, saying that Apple has refused to license its patents, Apple has pulled all Withings products from its stores. Earlier this year, Nokia bought Withings, which makes Wi-Fi scales and other digital health and fitness gear.

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  1. Abuse of position by Richard_at_work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And if this isn't abuse of Apples position, demonstrating exactly why Apples walled garden should be illegal, what is?

    And no, I don't care that Apple doesnt have "a monopoly", this is anti-competitive and Apple shouldn't be allowed to do it

    1. Re:Abuse of position by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Since when is a store a walled garden? If Amazon or Walmart stopped selling Withings products would you be complaining?

      Only the physical products are no longer available through the Apple Store and their physical locations. You can still get the applications in the App Store which you normally associate with the walled garden.

      I don't agree with Apple's business practice but please try to get your facts right.

  2. Re:Long ago in a galaxy far far away: Patent Wars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lawyers.