Apple says $1.3 billion France fine should be overturned
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`The French Competition Authority clearly wanted to make a mark by hitting hard against Apple` What you need to know Apple has been fined $1.3 billion by French competition authorities. It is over claims Apple tried to squeeze out iPad and Mac resellers in the country. Lawyers for Apple say the fine was a calculated political move and should be overturned. Lawyers for Apple say that a $1.3 billion fine levied by French competition authorities was a political play that should be overturned. As reported by Bloomberg: Apple Inc. accused French regulators of bending antitrust rules `for political objectives` when they doled out a record-breaking 1.1 billion-euro ($1.3 billion) fine as part of a campaign to crack down on Silicon Valley firms. A lawyer for Apple told a Paris court of Appeals that France`s Autorit&eaigu; de la Concurrence `never made a secret` of its goal to crack down on Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple regarding competition matters, and claimed `officials seiz...