Mac OS Ken: 07.02.2013

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

Technology

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🗓️ 2 July 2013

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Marketwatch: Antitrust Authorities in France Raid Apple Offices to Investigate Unfair Pricing for Wholesalers GigaOm: Antitrust Authorities in France Raid Apple Offices to Investigate Platform Lock-Ins FT: Apple Paid Zero Corporate Tax in UK in 2012 Kantar Worldpanel Comtech: Almost Half of All Smartphones Sold in Europe are a Samsung HP Says It Will Get Back Int Smartphones (Someday (When the Time is Right)) Raymond James Analyst Sees Lock-In as Key to Phase 2 of Mobile Computing for Apple Apple Q3 FY2013 Earnings Call Set for Tuesday 23 July Apple and Samsung Eliminate Products from Planned 2014 Patent Trial Apple Applies for iWatch Trademark in Mexico and Taiwan 9 to 5 Mac: Apple Getting Strict with Retail Employees Showing Off iOS 7 beta to Customers and Other Employees Apple Plans Solar Array for Reno, NV Data Center; Will Also Feed Energy to Local Power Grid

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0:00.0	This is Mac OSKinn.
0:09.2	Parts of the EU get ugly for Apple.
0:15.5	One financial analyst loves to lock in.
0:18.2	And Apple and Samsung Slim down for a fight.
0:21.8	It's Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco
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0:53.8	Apples seem to be bumping up against a bit of trouble in the EU.
0:57.1	We'll start in France, where antitrust authorities have apparently been searching
1:00.8	Apple's offices, its stores, and wholesaler locations.
1:05.0	Market Watch says the country's A Tourité de la Concorance search the sites last week
1:11.0	as part of a probe into whether the computer and software maker carries out
1:14.5	anti-competitive practice in the country. They got that from the French newspaper
1:19.5	Le Secos which says it got it from unidentified antitrust officials.
1:24.3	According to the report, independent retailers claim Apple violates existing agreements
1:29.4	by favoring its own stores.
1:31.4	The thing is, the authorities actually seem to be looking into more
1:34.8	than that or maybe just something else besides that. A separate piece on the
1:39.8	searches from Giga Ome says the drop-ins were part of a bigger probe into buyers
1:44.3	inability to switch easily from one platform to another. While the market watch
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