{"id":660403,"date":"2013-05-27T12:05:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=605800"},"modified":"2013-05-27T12:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:05:46","slug":"apples-iphone-sales-tactics-come-under-fire-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660403","title":{"rendered":"Apple\u2019s iPhone sales tactics come under fire in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/27\/apple-iphone-sales-tactics-europe\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/bgr-iphone-5-z-6.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple iPhone Sales Tactics\" title=\"Apple iPhone Sales Tactics\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The European Commission is reportedly investigating whether <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> is using &#8220;anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions&#8221; to edge out rivals in the European market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/d82487f4-c609-11e2-99d1-00144feab7de.html#axzz2USPaThxd\">according the <em>Financial Times<\/em><\/a>. The probe is said to be focused on Apple&#8217;s distribution terms, which may prevent rival smartphone vendors like <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a> from securing a better sales deal. The investigation is the result of an influx of private complaints from mobile operators, however it is still in its preliminary stages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/27\/apple-iphone-sales-tactics-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/_UJcQLJXPY0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission is reportedly investigating whether Apple is using &#8220;anti-competitive iPhone sales tactics and technical restrictions&#8221; to edge out rivals in the European market, according the Financial Times. The probe is said to be focused on Apple&#8217;s distribution terms, which may prevent rival smartphone vendors like Samsung from securing a better sales deal. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}