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Apple hits back at DOJ antitrust suit paragraph by paragraph in scathing response
As one of the longest tenured members on the site, I fully agree. The level of discussion was really starting to go off the rails. This doesn’t really have anything to do with the orange man, Whether you think “orange man bad” or “orange man good.” If anything, I think him being an office increases the chance that this goes away at some point. Watch Apple, pledge to move more production to the United States or whatever and it will—in unrelated news—-be dropped 😆Mike Wuerthele said:Everybody take a deep breath and re-read the commenting guidelines.
As a reminder, this suit started under the previous administration.P.S. How long? Pre-blackout. I originally registered in January or February 2000.
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Apple hits back at DOJ antitrust suit paragraph by paragraph in scathing response
The level of analysis and discussion by members on this is really disappointing (but not surprising) overall. We just have more standard ranting against the current administration, name-calling, and purely emotional/simplistic argument. Not everyone, of course. But that seems to be the overall impression I get.I have not studied DOJ suit in great detail. From my current understanding though, it seems like mostly thin gruel. The potential exception is the full integration of other NFC payment systems. Calling Apple an illegal monopoly has never passed the smell test for me. By the numbers, they don’t even have a monopoly, much less an illegal monopoly. claiming they have a monopoly on iPhones is roughly like claiming Honda has a monopoly on Accords. it’s a popular product with an extremely significant market share in the segment, but it’s obviously not a monopoly. I’ve never even agreed with the anti-steering provisions. Want to play in Apple’s garden? Play by the rules and pay the toll.
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Apple sues Jon Prosser over iOS 26 leaks
From what I understand, I find it extremely difficult to believe Apple will win this. It seems to be more of an intimidation tactic to shut him up. Unless they can prove he knowingly, accessed trade secrets in an unlawful way, they would have a very difficult time at trial, I think. But the point is, they have unlimited resources and he does not. So he really can’t win.
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Tim Cook isn't going to get fired, and Steve Jobs isn't rolling over in his grave
I don’t know a lot of people who are calling for Cook’s ouster. Then again, I’m not emotionally invested in it. I will say that Apple Intelligence is a massive failure so far. Siri has not kept up and it’s still frustrating to use to this day. But there’s no taking away the success Apple has had across the board. Tim obviously doesn’t have Steve Jobs’ charisma or salesmanship/reality distortion field. But he’s unquestionably a better CEO for most of the skills that are required for that job at this time. Steve Jobs was perfect to come back to the company in 1997 and rescue it from near bankruptcy. Over the next 14 years, he built it into a juggernaut. And now Tim Cook has made Apple essentially the most successful company in the history of the world. Obviously, he’s not going anywhere.
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Trump Mobile drops false 'made in America' promise
As a conservative, who doesn’t share the views of most members in this thread, I have to say I don’t see any problem with AppleInsider covering this.It’s sort of a bizarre story, Even if you put the politics aside. The Trump organization is essentially a licensing organization now. I listened to Eric Trump a week ago…talked about the phone after I had read about it here. This was before the made in America claims were apparently walked back. I suspect there is some kind of issue between the assembler, /manufacturer (licensee) and the Trump organization in terms of communication. It almost has a feeling of them getting approved advertising copy and talking points, then realizing a lot of it simply isn’t true. I have no idea if that’s what went down, it’s just a feeling I have.What I will say is there seems to be a lot of crowing about all the Trump fans who are going to lineup to be bamboozled for this thing. I realize the view some people have of Trump supporters, but I don’t think it’s accurate…and I don’t think this is going to be a very popular product.
