Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by TacticalTable on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:53PM
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Apple seems to have given non-answers, or entirely avoided, several questions on here. Is this par for the course on probes, was information redacted, or are there going to be consequences for Apple here?
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Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by lmkg on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:21PM
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To my knowledge, this is Congress asking questions, not sending a subpeona. Participation at this stage is still voluntary, and mostly consists of political posturing.
If Congress wishes to pursue it, they have legal tools where cooperation is non-optional. The current conversation is part of the song-and-dance where Apple tries to avoid that by offering something resembling cooperation, but on their own terms. Many of the questions are meant to answer the question "if we conduct a probe for realsies, who will be the winner?" rather than the question-as-asked.
Re:Apple Antitrust Probe – Responses to Congress [pdf]
by ikeboy on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:12PM
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Compare to Amazon's at https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU05/20190716/109793/HHRG...
My guess is for questions asking for a specific number and that wasn't given, the details were submitted privately, but the ones that are just spinning an answer did not have private submissions.