The chairman of the ACCC, Rod Sims, says the inquiry was interesting, but IT pricing is complex.
ROD SIMS: It's a tricky issue there because to some extent if I'm a company in, say, the United States and I want to price at a certain level in my home market and I want to price at a different level in Australia, and I own the goods, they're my goods, I can do it. So that's not against the law.
There are ways they do it where it's against the law. So it really does depend on the circumstances. So we just have to have - and we are looking at these things on a case by case basis.
WILL OCKENDENT: The big technology companies don't seem too worried by the report's conclusions.
Adobe told PM it has nothing to add, Apple pointed to comments made in March, and Microsoft declined to comment.