Re: Apple accused of starving French reseller of hot stock

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Homer wrote:

> Verily I say unto thee that Hardon spake thusly:
>><quote>
>> iPhone maker hauled into court over throttled supplies
>>
>> Apple squeezed supplies to a top reseller and used its own retail
>> stores to gain an unfair competitive advantage, claims a French shop
>> chain that is taking Apple to court in Paris.
>>
>> eBizcuss, the largest reseller in France, said that Apple favoured its
>> own stores over theirs when it shipped out new and hotly demanded
>> trendy tech gear.
>>
>> A throttling of Apple deliveries, particularly reduced shipments of
>> the iPad 2 and Macbook Air, cost the store a 30 per cent fall in
>> revenue in quarter three this year, eBizcuss CEO Francois Prudent told
>> Le Figaro (English report). Apple's own retail outlets continued to
>> receive stock. More recently the reseller, which has 16 locations
>> across France, was unable to get any stock of the iPhone 4S.
>>
>> This was despite eBizcuss spending $6.5 million bringing its
>> point-of-sale system up to the standard that Apple requested. Apple
>> was also unfairly undercutting their distribution partners on price,
>> alleges Prudent, with Apple offering corporate customers prices lower
>> than they were giving to the reseller shops.
>></quote>
>
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2012/01/03/apple_france/
>
> As one commenter put it, they shouldn't get into bed with a company like
> Apple then expect not to get shafted. They also shouldn't put so many of
> their eggs in one basket, such that when they do get shafted, they don't
> have anything to fall back on. A quick look at their Website (iclg.com),
> suggests they're pretty much an Apple closed-shop. Idiots. Maybe if they
> tried something else, like say that line of smartphones that has greater
> than 50% of the market (what's it called again?) they wouldn't have been
> shafted and/or could've told Apple to go screw itself.
>
> The CEO was probably a dazed Apple fanboy. I bet he isn't now though. Ah
> well, lesson learned. Dance with the Devil, and burn.
>


It seems the patent troll appil is full of crooks offering
extortionate prices to its dealers and holding back supplies
while offering its own stores massive self discount - illegal under
all monopoly supply circumstance. Appil reality distortion
field working its magic in marketing department
also causes market distortion field to be thrown around
suckers that resell appil products.

All these companies that sell appil and micoshaft products
still haven't learned their lessons yet - they can make far more money
selling Linux products than any other product.
The management of electronics retailers should be taking an inventory of all
the products that contain Linux - and its a big list - all flat screens,
monitors, printers, routers, IP Webcams, DVD players, HD recorders,
sat navs, set top boxes, MP3, MP4, MP5 players etc contain Linux.

90% of the electronics market revenue is from Linux.
There is no justice in taking up the rest of the shelves with crap
from appil/micoshaft sales plops who are there to rob you
of your hard earned pennies.

How to convince these retailers to take the right
steps and make even more money.

Linux is free to use and that is why its so popular and
commercially such a big thing. http://www.distrowatch.com
http://www.livecdlist.com
If you want to make more money from free software, then
specify more Linux in all your products. Its as simple as that!
Go send all your product managers to China, Korea, Taiwan
and see whats on offer from the factories and specify
more Linux, and more Linux features in all products to make
tons of money.