[bipin_nag]

The news is fine but why drag Amazon into it?

>At Amazon headquarters, however, they're probably popping open the champagne.

>Amazon, however, is probably grinning like the Cheshire Cat.

The author is not doing justice to his job as a reporter. If you want to opine then separate it from the facts. Amazon which has nothing to do with the ruling gets depicted as a villain and Apple which actually is guilty doesn’t get its share of bad words. What is worse is that he starts to paint Amazon that way before he gives any of the details of ruling.

[mhaymo]

Not that I disagree with your point, but it's not true that Amazon had "nothing to do with the ruling". According to Wikipedia, they were the original complainants:

> Shortly after January 31, Amazon sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission complaining about the simultaneous nature of the demands for agency model agreements from the Publishers who had signed with Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.

[rjbwork]

>The author is not doing justice to his job as a reporter. If you want to opine then separate it from the facts.

Implying internet bloggers are reporters. The prestige of the journalist today is in the toilet because the barrier to entry is essentially nil. You can just start writing for some fly by night site and get hundreds to thousands of readers overnight, without any basic understanding of the profession or established practices.

[baldfat]

> Implying internet bloggers are reporters.

If your making a living by reporting your a reporter. Just like all other professions you make a living at it that's your profession. To belittle that profession if they don't have a degree or at a smaller place well that isn't quite the same thing. This is the place where journalism lives since there are so few non-internet reporting positions.

[CapitalistCartr]

Saying a blogger isn't a reporter is not belittling. Its correct. Blogging isn't reporting, as plumbing isn't carpentry.

[baldfat]

> Blogging isn't reporting, as plumbing isn't carpentry

Care to qualify that with something that even makes that analogy work? Blogger and Reporting are almost meaningless words. Some of the best reporting in technology would also be called a blog. Mary Jo Foley is a great example and re/code with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.

[baldfat]

zdnet.com isn't even a blog it comes from ZiffDavis originally a print magazine firm's first effort to come to the internet. zdnet is owned by CBS Interactive.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols isn't a blogger the guy has been around since the 1980s reporting on technology. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjvn1

[RodericDay]

I wonder how all the people invested into "Developer vs. Software Engineer" feel about this.

[morganvachon]

I think it's made clear in the article why the author is so biased:

> "The publishers Apple had joined forces with were Hachette; News Corp's HarperCollins; Penguin Group Inc; Macmillan; and Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS (ZDNet's parent company)."

[studentrob]

I do not think Amazon looks like a villain in the article. Good guys drink champagne too, and the Cheshire Cat was not a bad guy, he was neutral.

It is relevant to mention Amazon. Although Amazon isn't named in the case, Apple was competing with Amazon directly by offering publishers a service through which they can set their own prices. With Amazon, publishers don't set the price of books, Amazon does.

The ruling does effect Amazon's business. They have one less competitor model to worry about.

[tantalor]

> the Cheshire Cat was not a bad guy, he was neutral

This checks out.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/af/20/c6/af20c61ff...