Amazon And Apple Fined $218 Million For Elbowing Out Small Retailers In Spain::Regulators said the tech giants colluded to box out competitors by favoring sales of Apple products directly from the online retail giant.

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Cost of doing business.

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Yup, it’s not like this is going to bring the smaller players back

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Exactly - also, they’ll never see any of those millions or am i wrong?

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Oh no 218 million for two companies that have a higher GDP than 95% of nations, how will they ever recover?

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This is next to nothing for them.

However, stay tuned because supposedly the ftc is going after them.

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American regulators going after anyone is a cute dream.

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Which couch will they look in to find all that money??

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$218 Million to them is like a penny to me :/ what a fine

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They really do need to compute fines like this on gross revenue, not profit.

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