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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (255070)	8/1/2008 11:33:54 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Guess the FTC, the EU, and the Justice Department should go after AT&T for having exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone The correct metaphor would be if Nokia paid AT&T (and Verizon, etc.) to NOT sell the iPhone, blocking Apple from the cell phone market. And that would be illegal. And thanks for providing a great example. If AT&T and Apple want to work out a deal, that's fine, but Nokia can't block it. If Nokia had 90% of the cell phone market, and AT&T was dependent on Nokia, Nokia could have attempted the same tort. It's the 3rd party aspect that's key. Nokia has no (legal) right to block Apple from selling to AT&T, just as Intel had no legal right to block Dell, Sony, Toshiba, etc. from buying from AMD. But that's what Intel did.