Apple Accused of Running a ‘Walled Garden’ Monopoly in Canada | iPhone in Canada
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Looks like Canadians are attempting to break down Apple’s App Store dominance here as well, and not just in the U.S. The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, better known as CIPPIC, has filed an application asking for permission to bring a case under the Competition Act, accusing Apple of abusing its dominant

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, or CIPPIC, is described as “Canada‘s first and only public interest technology law clinic” and is operated out of University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law

Peter Nowak is also covering this at his substack.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    They’re profit maximizing everywhere. Their prices in the US are already what they think is the about as high as they can go while maintaining sufficient sales volume. If they could use tariffs to increase their prices without hurting sales, they’d do it. If they aren’t doing that, chances are they have alreasy set US prices where price times volume is the greatest for the current market conditions. Worse, the economy is weakening so they may have to revise prices downwards. Probably by adjusting the mid-range model prices or introducing new, cheaper intermediate models.