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  • Senator Warren asks if Apple CEO Tim Cook's Trump playbook is blatant corruption

    Moderation note: waiting until the mods go to bed to continue posting the things we asked you not to post isn't a good strategy. 
    I‘m not disagreeing, but I‘ll note that time zones are a thing and rather a lot of the world actually happens while you people are in bed. 
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  • Apple EU anti-competition fine is a relatively modest $570 million to avoid Trump retaliat...


    I'm very confused by this...

    Specifically, the EU claims that Apple has failed to comply with an obligation to allow developers in its App Store to freely inform customers of alternative offers, "steer them to those offers and allow them to make purchases.

    That's like walking into a small corner store with them posting a sign next to the milk saying that the store next door has the same product, possibly at a cheaper price.

    No, it’s not like that. The Store is not a „small corner store“; it is the only shop in town. They’re all you see, all the road signs around town lead to that one store, and because the store owners also run the town, they prohibit everybody selling in that store from putting up their own signs letting people know about other, actually „small“ shops you could buy those products from. 
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  • Google has an illegal monopoly on online advertising, judge rules

    gatorguy said:
    Afarstar said:
    jfabula1 said:
    So I’m thinking, if a US company get very successful in their business model & it get rich it becomes monopolistic.. 
    Will Facebook be the next? 
    Hopefully. 
    Careful. There's a few American tech companies who have become behemoths. Apple and Amazon are two who immediately come to mind. This administration would not have been one I would expect to be insisting on business success being penalized. 
    The judiciary is *supposed* to be independent of the administration. That’s kind of the point of building a democracy upon three separate but equal branches of government. 
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  • Trump confirms he reduced tariffs to help Tim Cook

    Tim Cook didn't "donate" that $1 million to buy a seat at the inauguration ceremony for nuthin'.

    That's how this administration works. 
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  • Apple accused of corruption

    No. She accuses Apple of bribery

    She's accusing the Trump administration of corruption. 

    Tim Cook bought the million-dollar inauguration ceremony seat, because that's the price of doing business under Trump. 

    It's quite possible that Cook convinced Trump to drop the tariffs, and it's extremely likely that the only reason he had Trump's ear on this was because of that million-dollar, er… "donation". 
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