“Apple not only met THAT bar, but exceeded it by showing that competition was vastly INCREASED by their entry into the market, and showing that in fact, overall prices had DROPPED,”
What about the graph I directed to you that showed that prices JUMPED UP when the conspired deal took place!
SO WHAT? You still do not grasp that prices going up is NOT evidence of price fixing, in and of itself. The continual low prices of Amazon WAS classical price fixing to control the market for anti-competition purposes. . . Amazon was doing the SAME DAMN THING WITH HARD COPY BOOKS and was driving the brick and mortar book stores out of business by selling the bread-and-butter best sellers and A-list books, which comprised 80% of the profits of such stores BELOW WHOLESALE COST! Yet the Obama Justice Department took no action because Amazon's primary owner was a huge donor to Obama and Democrats!
If you think that is a good thing, you are not a conservative.
That's the EXPECTED RESULT of ending a year's long suppression of prices by a monopolist, in this case Amazon keeping Best Sellers and A-list eBook at an artificially low price to keep any potential competitor out of the eBook market by selling the at at least $5 per book below what they paid for them! It is perfectly normal for a suppressed price to find a new normal price when the anchors are removed from the normal market pressures.