EU Inquiry Finds No Evidence Apple Colluded With Record Labels to End Freemium Music

[mastgrr]

I sense that the EU likes to randomly boss around U.S. corporations. Remember this BS?

That story was riddled with such misinformation it was ridiculous. People thought it was the European Union itself or European Commission that stopped sales of the Mac Pro.

It never was. In fact, it had nothing to do with the EU at all.

It was the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), a non-governmental international standards body, that issued the 2nd amendment to regulation IEC 60950-1. (This can be easily recognised by any observant reader within a split second by the fact that European Union's Regulations have a different naming scheme, such as
"Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012").

Through the Dresden Agreement between the IEC and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), European countries adopt international standards avoid double work.

CENELEC operates independently from the EU.

Instead I'd put the blame on Apple. They probably didn't want to waste time, money or energy to fix the fans on the Mac Pro since they were working on a new model that was in alignment with the new IEC regulation.

 

[cmwade77]

Thanks for the laughs too, I agree Apple maps is not on par with google maps Apple map is much SUPERIOR than google maps. You should try them both NOW, not just based on your past experiences.

I have tried both and Apple maps gets me lost about 75% of the time. Google maps hasn't failed me one single time and in fact has saved me countless hours in traffic.

So, for me I would say Google maps is still far superior.

 

[5232152]

Haha ha ha. If by "people" you mean an unelected Bureaucrat in Brussels, I forgive you. Otherwise the EU in actuality is/will be an object lesson in disenfranchisement.

And you would have to be trolling to think this investigation didn't arise from lobbying from Apple's competitors. I don't except much from them, but I doubt the Eurocrats are sitting around all day wondering what Apple will do next. They acted on a complaint. If there wasn't a complaint, Europe has a bigger problem.

No, Greece has bigger problems. Learn your differences please.

 

[gnasher729]

By that logic there would be no need for the word "free", because nothing would ever qualify. You always "spend time"…

Let's see how Webster defines "free" …

"not costing any money"

Oh well, let's not try to redefine language to make a point then.

Slow down, cowboy.

First, Mirriam-Webster doesn't define the language. It's just a dictionary, one of many.

Second, you copied one of three lines from the very beginning of their online dictionary, which contain a simplified and very inaccurate definition. Later they show a good dozen different meanings of "free", of which one is "not costing or charging anything". Notice that "money" is missing and was replaced with "anything"? Since this is an apple related site: "If you pick 100 pounds of apples in my orchard, you can keep 10 pounds". Nobody would seriously claim these apples are free. If you pay by creating advertisement revenue for the site then it isn't free.

 

[foobarbaz]

If you pay by creating advertisement revenue for the site then it isn't free.

Again, then what is ever "free" by that definition? Nothing. The dictionary doesn't define, but it describes how we commonly use the language.

"These free hugs aren't free, I have to walk over there …" is "correct reasoning", but it's just not how people use the word "free".

"Generating advertising revenue" costs you even less.