back to article Nothing BEATS a good anti-trust investigation, eh, Apple?

The United States Federal Trade Commission is investigating Apple, again, following concerns that its to-be-relaunched Beats Music streaming service may gain an unfair advantage by exploiting the market dominance of Apple's iTunes store. An inquiry by the antitrust G-men could interrupt a much touted launch of the Cupertino- …

  1. King Jack

    Digital Downloads

    Is there another kind of download that is not digital? Just say 'downloads'.

    1. Ragarath

      Re: Digital Downloads

      Err... yes, analogue!

  2. macjules
    FAIL

    And Mail?

    Still no action on the fact that you can only modify your default Mail client app via Apple Mail's preferences.

    If this was Microsoft we were talking about ...

    1. Efros

      Re: And Mail?

      IIRC correctly it's the same with default browser, you have to go into Safari's preferences to change that.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: And Mail?

      I don't understand your complaint. Apple lets you use a different mail app but you think it is a "fail" because you don't like where that preference is changed? Microsoft didn't let you change the default browser at all until they were forced to do, and things didn't work right when you did so. Your comparison is a FAIL.

      1. Irongut
        FAIL

        Re: And Mail?

        Go back to FUD School DougS you failed. MS have always allowed you to change the default browser in Windows. They were never forced to do so, only to annoyingly advertise alternatives and that on in Europe.

    3. Michael Thibault

      Re: And Mail?

      >... you can only modify your default ...

      Better that a means to alter the default be found in an expectable location than to have each new application installed attempt to land-grab, frontier-style, the relevant lot of URLs, MIME Types, protocols etc. for itself--covertly and forcibly. Incidentally:

      http://www.rubicode.com/Software/RCDefaultApp/

  3. frank ly
    Happy

    Apples and Registers

    "As a search term, Apple Inc. returns literally thousands of hits on the FTC site."

    So do Microsoft Inc and Google Inc and also The Register. Is this guilt by association?

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Is this a new metric?

    As a search term, Apple Inc. returns literally thousands of hits on the FTC site

    What is that supposed to mean or suggest?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Is this a new metric?

      I suspect it means that if you search for Apple on the FTC site you get a few thousand results.

  5. Teiwaz

    Real, or Imagined Anti-trust Antics.

    it's not exactly IE over Netscape all over again (certainly no 'market dominance of itunes in linux land). Might be bundled with OS-X (never used it), but it's not exactly the dominant platform, and neither is IOS.

    This wouldn't be at the prodding of other interest groups still miffed at their long running strangle-hold on music being broken, partially by innovation (not necessarily purely fruity) and mostly by their own intransigence.

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