US Justice Department launches an inquiry over Apple´s business tactics by Zuzana Zelenakova

News reached the public that the US Department of Justice launches an inquiry over Apple´s business tactics concerning online music sales. Apparently, the reason behind all this is the conflict between Apple Inc and Amazon.com. Although Apple´s position on the market is rather unshakable it is possible it felt threatened by Amazon´s MP3 store. According to people from big music labels Apple, which is admired all over the world as one of the most creative and innovative companies, has been putting quite a lot of pressure on them for some time now. However, as soon as the reports by the trade magazine Billboard reached the public the issue became a real thing.! Amazon offered the music labels to have some of their brand new songs that has not been yet released promoted through their MP3 Daily Deal web site in exchange for an exclusive right to sell these songs before their wider release. As Billboard informed, Apple on the other hand was asking the music industry folks not to cooperate with the online sales company on this one. Apple later refused the market support on iTunes for those who did. "They are . . . diverting their energy from 'let's make this machine better' to 'let's protect what we got,' " said a major-label executive about the situation. Apple is already in the center of the attention of the Federal Trade Commission due to complaints by Abdobe that has been angered by Apple´s decision to keep creation of iPhone OS applications exclusive. Abdobe, irritated by Apple´s ruling out third party compilers launched an ad campaign against the move. "No company—no matter how big or how creative—should d! ictate what you can create, how you create it, or what you can! experie nce on the web," reads letters by Abdobe´s founders Chuck Geschke and John Warnock.

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by Zuzana Zelenakova for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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