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Let's see, one company sells a mass quantity to another at a discount, so Apple's competitors, which also happens to be the supplier, cries foul.

It's not Apple's fault that the competition doesn't have the voulme of sales to warrant a steep discount...

Well, I guess actually it IS their fault LOL

And by the time they finish investigating 12 other firms will be selling the same memory in various countries and this will be yesterday's news.

Shouldn't Wal Mart be sued then for antitrust on just about everything?

Poor losers I say

"Shouldn't Wal Mart be sued then for antitrust on just about everything?"
This is in Korea, remember.

South Korean FTC under immense pressure from rival music player makers to do this, hence the announcement that there "may" be an investigation. Can't see it happening, and even if there is one, I don't imagine they could show the deal is below cost, but they have to make all the right noises to their own domestic producers.

Samsung and Apple will pull a page from the parody sketch of Dave Chappelle and plead "the fiz-ith"

(not sure if they actually have a fifth amendment right as we do here in the US, over there in Korea... to lazy to look it up for an easy joke too)

Korean and Fair Trade don't seem to go together. I remember reading over the years that domestic companies have the advantagee over foreign companies. Or was that Japan? I haven't read the details of the complaint, but as long as the deal wasn't exclusive, then I can't see any grounds for any action.

Somebody better teach these gooks how the tech market works, otherwise they're going to be in a lot of trouble.

The key word here is "potential" - just FUD so far.

PS

there are several Wal-Marts in Korea.

The point is pretty simple traditional foreign business practices, "Dont let outsiders, steal your piece of the pie"

Give em all a Nano and they'll shut up.

When you buy masses of stuff---don't you create the market price?

Given Korean producers propensity to sell offshore at below cost ("dumping"), the Korean Government is going to have a hard time with this one. I expect a drawn out investigation with nothing to report in about 9 months. In the meantime, producers (including Samsung) of NAND memory will have ramped up to satisfy demand. Overall pricing will drop and everybody will be happy, excepting of course, Creative, Sony, Dell et al.

Samsung has made its position clear on this: the Nano flash memory is a new type that is cheaper than those used by the WMA-player producers. Since Apple bought a huge percentage of these types of flash memory they got a big discount. If South Korean companies want to compete with Apple and get bigger discounts for their music player components then maybe they should stop hopping for the WMA-compatible market to mature. Whatever happened to AAC support from these would-be Apple competitors?

Errrrt, errrrt, errrrt, FUD detected, errrrt, errrrt, errrrt!

Typical. Mac fanboys praise the Lord when M$ gets hit by antitrust allegations but scream bloody murder when it's Apple's turn. I wonder if Jobs has as many lawyers as Bill? He sure hasn't got the cash...

Typical. M$ fanboys praise the Lord when Bill - yet again shits on antitrust endictments, but scream bloody murder when Apple beats them at their own game. I wonder how many lawyers Bill has? He sure has got the cash.

twdldee -
I don't mean to criticizes, but you should be aware that many people, including myself, find the term "gook" incredibly offensive. Right up there with the "N" word.
Just wanted to let you know.

-a white guy-