You’ll soon be able to snag non-Audible audiobooks within iTunes. A long-standing exclusive arrangement between Apple and Amazon, which has been in place since 2003, came to an end earlier this month following complaints from German publishers and investigations by European antitrust regulators, who were concerned that the agreement was stifling competition and raising prices. […]
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A monopoly can’t last forever. Per The Nikkei, Japanese carrier KDDI will break up rival Softbank’s exclusive hold on Apple’s iPhone in the country early next year, when it will reportedly begin selling the iPhone 5. The business newspaper said on Thursday it had learned that the company will offer Apple’s next-generation iPhone through its […]
With additional chatter surrounding the idea of Apple extending the iPhone to Verizon this year, the exact specifics of Apple’s five-year exclusive contract with AT&T have never really been published. Fortunately, the cool cats at Engadget managed to uncover the following: An ongoing California class-action lawsuit filed in 2007 claims that Apple and AT&T illegally […]