This is Mac OSKIN. The next fight in the bitter book battle, your home stands to get Smata in 2015 and one

Apple store gets a major award. No, it's not a leg lamp.

It's Monday, December 15, 2014.

I'm Ken Ray, and this is news from MacOS Ken.

Brought to you by yours truly and supported by iChart magazine, putting

Apple and Tech News in focus. E-Y-E-I-Chart magazine, available for iOS newsstand now.

Apple's appeal of Judge Denise Coates' e-book price fixing verdict begins today.

It also ends today. Well Well the appeal itself does anyway. Fortune says

Apple gets about one hour to argue against the multi-million dollar ruling in the

case. What it'll argue is both interesting and

confusing. Basically Apple may well have set up a system that incentivized

publishers to gang up on Amazon, but if it did that for its own gain rather than to hurt

Amazon specifically, it shouldn't have been found guilty under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Quoting Fortune, if Apple's actions are ambiguous, if it merely created for its own business

reasons contractual incentives for the publishers to gang up on Amazon, it should be given the benefit of the doubt.

While the three-judge panel is not likely to rule on Apple's appeal for months, what happens

today is important, while Apple has agreed to a settlement in the case that will likely only

take a fact after all appeals are exhausted. So if the judges say the coat

ruling was valid this case could be headed to the Supreme Court.

If the judges send the case back to Judge Coate,

Apple's settlement goes down to $70 million,

and again, one imagines that's only after every appeal is exhausted and finally the outcome for

...