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Nobody likes to be in the grip of a large, cold-hearted corporation that can abuse its dominance to dictate terms... just ask fanbois Apple. It seems the world’s most-valued company has had enough of the sales monopoly the telcos milked from the iPhone franchise in Blighty and is at last taking action. This month, Apple UK …

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  1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge

    Surely an Apple PR bod saying "not at all, not at all", is a step up from silence? Is El Reg moving off of Apple's naughty step?

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  2. Uberseehandel

    Please cut out the unfunny funnies

    What is Britland?

    It sounds like part of the Poundland empire!

    Britain is quite weird and funny enough without a lame attempt to make the place sound like an adjoint of somewhere else. It adds nothing to the story

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    Have you seen the margins? £5 on a 16GB iPhone 6 ... yipee!

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      £5 margin? Really? You are working for the wrong reseller then......

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  4. frank ly

    "... the Dickensian Cookian empire."

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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    1. Uberseehandel
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      Re: "... the Dickensian Cookian empire."

      In place of Dickensian, I'd substitute Kafkaesque.

      Dickensian implies something quite different to what goes on at Apple, remember Dickens wrote what he did because he was campaigning for social reform.To this end he also used adroit humour, irony and bathos. The Apple of Jobs and later Cook is a much meaner spirited place.

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        Gimp

        Sauronesque empire?

        One phone to rule them all, One phone to find them; One phone to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

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  5. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge

    Oh dear. Not selling enough iPhones then?

    Then rope in a few more outlets to flog them to the unwary/foolish/stupid {delete as appropriate}

    With MS seemingly getting out of the phone biz Apple didn't need to worry that much.

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