{"id":5401,"date":"2010-05-04T14:39:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T19:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:31:27","slug":"apple-draws-antitrust-suspicions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/05\/04\/apple-draws-antitrust-suspicions\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple draws antitrust suspicions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5402\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/05\/Apple-Corp.-logo-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Corp. logo\" width=\"63\" height=\"63\" \/>Federal antitrust enforcers are <a title=\"considering\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-04\/apple-policy-said-to-prompt-u-s-allegation-by-adobe-update1-.html\" target=\"_blank\">considering<\/a> a\u00a0probe into<a href=\"apple.com\"> Apple<\/a> Inc. after changes in the company&#8217;s licensing agreement with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\"> iPhone<\/a> application developers that forbids the use of software tools other than Apple&#8217;s to build programs or the transmission of analytical data to third parties like advertisers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s yet to be decided if the inquiry would be conducted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov\/\">Department of Justice<\/a>.\u00a0 School of <a href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/index.shtml\">Management<\/a> Professor <a title=\"Michael Salinger\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/SalingerMichael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Salinger<\/a>, a former FTC director, says there was a time when the DoJ\u00a0might have\u00a0gone easier on Apple than the FTC.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cDuring the Bush years, Apple would surely have preferred that DoJ get the case.\u00a0 I question whether that is still true.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Michael Salinger, 617-353-4408, <a href=\"mailto:salinger@bu.edu\">salinger@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal antitrust enforcers are considering a\u00a0probe into Apple Inc. after changes in the company&#8217;s licensing agreement with iPhone application developers that forbids the use of software tools other than Apple&#8217;s to build programs or the transmission of analytical data to third parties like advertisers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s yet to be decided if the inquiry would be conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2549,1119,1177,1901,669,2878,2879,2763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/7761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}