| NJ5 said: @heruamon: Maybe you missed this post with the specifics of the deals Intel made: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2151200 |
Yeah, I missed that posting, and it's pretty damning, but should this then go thru a court case, and get it deliberated, since to be quite fair...this is as reported by the same EU regulators that are applying this unprecedented fine...so they are a bit bias, I would say.
Edit: After scourge the news for more info, I definitely think the EU had a basis to slam Intel with a fine, but because the fine so outstrips the violation, imho, you are kinda fixated on the amount, and not the charges. There are two parties involved in these cases...Intel and the said parties, and amazingly, you see nothing against those companies. Sure, Intel offered it to them ,but they took it...whereas other companies didn't, otherwise AMD would have never gotten ANY market share. Subsequent to that time, AMD has put out a clearly inferior product, and they funny thing is Intel's Market share is increasing without these extensive rebates, not decreasing, based on sound engineering, not gimmicks.
I DO standby my forecastthat Apple is next...
"...You can't kill ideas with a sword, and you can't sink belief structures with a broadside. You defeat them by making them change..."
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