Italy Takes $1.2 Million Bite Out of Apple for Unfair Commercial Practices
Italy Takes $1.2 Million Bite Out of Apple for Unfair Commercial Practices
Posted 12/27/2011 at 8:07am
| by Paul Lilly
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Apple on Tuesday was fined 900,000 euros (about $1.2 million) by Italy's Antitrust Authority following an investigation into complaints of "unfair commercial practices" relating to its retail stores. The company's first retail store opened in Italy in 2006 in Ponte di Nona, and now there are nine stores in all located in various parts of the country.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Italian authorities fined Apple 400,000 euros for not providing adequate information to customers about the length of warranties, and another 500,000 euros for failing to provide sufficient information to customers about its AppleCare Protection Plan. The fines were handed down to Apple Sales International, Apple Italia Sri, and Apple Retail Italia.
Italy has been keeping a close eye on Apple's operations. According to Apple Insider, the Italian government, along with the U.S., France, Germany, and South Korea, probed Apple over its location data controversy earlier this year, which was addressed in an iOS update.
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andi86
December 27, 2011 at 10:15pm
alright. you guys are a computer website/magizine. so you should have spellcheck correct?
"Italy has been keep a close eye on Apple's operations"
this sentence is from your article. keep should be keeping.
"Italy has been keeping a close eye on Apple's operations"
and not only that but i was trying to make a account and i was forced to opt into some crap. i entered 15 different word capchas and none of them worked. but low and be hold the sencond i click i want to opt into that crap my account gets created.....this is crap. i should be forced to do something i dont want to.....
MaximumMike
December 28, 2011 at 6:50pm
And not only that, but it's "an account." Also, you missed "lo and behold." You also misspelled "second" as "sencond." Additionally, ellipses do not take the place of perfectly good periods. For someone so obsessed over perfect spelling, you don't seem to be able to string together more than two words without bastardizing the English language.
h e x e n
December 28, 2011 at 6:06am
You mean you "shouldn't" be forced to do something you don't want to?
Kind of hard to be a grammar nazi when you can't even type out your own sentences correctly. By the way, you forgot to capitalize You, So, This, Keep, And, I, I, I, But, I, I, I and I.
davidtuerk
December 27, 2011 at 8:30am
1.2 Milion is nothing at all! when you own a multi billion dollar company that is...
Marthian
December 28, 2011 at 11:02am
especially when you got more money than the US government.
That said, I hope it isn't possible to buy out a country. Obama being re-elected is one thing, but Apple owning the United States is another, considering their business practices.
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