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  1. Comment - Apple, Samsung May Face Inquiry

    (Oct 8, 2005 - 4:43 AM)

    To be honest.

    Who really cares?

    Bigger companies do and have done more dirty deals in their time for this to even be considered worth listening to.

    A 'favourable offer'?

    What, buy one get one free? Don't think so there buddy.

    the other manufacturers are just pissed they didn't get to sell their chips to Apple. Assuming Samsung made an offer on their chips, to be what. A quarter of the price of the other people in the little war for having Apple buy their chips. Let's say, for arguments sake that the Korean company said "Buy our chips and eight hundred dollars per unit of 10,000" (Bare with me, I know the figures aren't realistic) and Samsung said "Buy ours at 400 dollars per unit of 10,000"

    Assuming that Samsungs chips were just as good as the other companies chips, or even better, we don't know, then why the hell would Apple buy the more expensive chip?

    That's not malpractice, that's just using some people to work out that they'll make money if they sell it cheaper than the rest, judging by the expected sales of the Nano.

    I can't see this develping any further. Someone's stiring up a s**t storm because they didn't get what they wanted.

  2. Comment - iTunes and the 99 Cent Question

    (Oct 8, 2005 - 4:34 AM)

    Incase no one has noticed, piracy has occured for hundreds of years. Granted piracy has changed slightly, but it goes to show that no matter what the 'ggod guys' do, the pirates are going to be there, one way or another.

    Closing torrent sites just makes people open up new ones in the places that don't give one about the copyright laws, and the RIAA. For example, China.

    My point is, raised prices or not, piracy of music will go on for as long as there is music to pirate, and trying to clamp down on it just not going to help, the distributers of pirated music will find a way around it.

    If all else fails, buy a damn CD.

    England: Music Zone, sometimes Virgin Megastores.

    US: Best Buy, Circuit City (As mentioned by mrleung21)

    International: Amazon.

    Stop being so bloody closed minded and do a bit of bargin hunting, rather than moan about raised iTunes prices.

    Then at the very least you have a hard copy of the album you can play in your car, your home stereo, your laptop or desktop computer.