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This is starting to become sort of trend with Apple.

In what way ? Way too many people seemed to have rewritten the last 10 years of Apple's history.

They have done a ridiculous amount of dodgy, illegal and anti-user things before, during and after Job's reign. They aren't perfect nor should any sane person expect 100K+ people to be. Just like Google, Microsoft, IBM etc.

No one should expect perfection, but I think most would expect any company with the means to follow the laws of every country they operate in, because that's their obligation. If they can't follow the law, they shouldn't be given a <$1M wrist-slap, they should be corrected.

What about the Taiwanese businesses that are disadvantaged by this type of practice? Surely that's worth far more than $1M.

What about the Taiwanese businesses that benefit from this type of practice, by having less competition when selling their cheaper phones? I'm sure Acer, Asus and HTC aren't complaining that iPads aren't cheaper.

This is about contract price-fixing, not price-fixing of apple products.

Become? Not really, now that they're bigger its just getting more attention. Apple has always tightly controlled prices of their product.

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