European Union closes Apple investigation

Why is the EU in it, I'm sorry but I don't understand how this is protecting consumers, if consumers don't want to deal with a company (i.e Microsoft and IE and Apple and the App Market) then don't buy their devices or find away around them (Install another browser and jailbreak). Is it that hard? No it isn't. If you don't like having IE installed and so ingrained in the OS then use Linux or Mac or LIVE WITH IT. Yeesh

@macserv: you are absolutely wrong. The EU has still a very strong case against Apple regarding the unfair treatment of several EU member countries, by selectively picking the EU countries where the iTunes store is available or not. By EU law, a service offered by a worldwide company in one EU country must be also offered in all member countries.

While I'm glad Apple's policy change allowed the EU to pull their heads out of their asses, the whole thing was just a waste of everyone's time and money. The EU (and the FTC/DOJ) have never had anything resembling a case against Apple.

If I had to sum it up with a sentence, ala Mel, I'd simply say: "It's about damned time".

Well strange about the fixing-policy across EU borders. My dad bought an iPod Classic 80G in 2006. Almost a year later he was in another EU country when it stopped working. He brought it to an Apple reseller together with a copy of the invoice I mailed him. The shop gave him a receipt of the item brought in for repairs. After 4 days he got a call that he could pick it up. Arriving to the shop he received a brand new Apple iPod 80GB cause his was like unrepairable. He received a new invoice from the shop which gave him another 90 days warranty. So his 1 yr warranty suddenly extended like 2 months + a brand new iPod. I dunno how they did it, but it was a wonderful service.