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Too bad the judge focused on how absurd and irresponsible it would have been to gift a jet rather than the state of modern advertising where corporations over promise and underdeliver. Had I been the judge I would've granted Leonard a victory!

It’s concerning how the FBI, Epic, and Facebook want a say in how Apple runs its business.
iPhone has 20% market share, not a monopoly, yet here we are.
Although these anti Apple marketing campaigns don’t have a leg to stand on, they do help tarnish the brand. All are leveraging it to their advantage.

Apple will lose this one too, it’s what they do

tzeshan said:

lkrupp said:

Alger said:

Welcome to India.  Supposed democracy where 98% of the population are treated like human garbage, due to barbaric, medieval caste system, mindless religious zealotry and grotesque overpopulation.  If Apple don't want to see their humanistic reputation (what's left of it after almost selling their soul to capture Chinese market) sullied even further, they had better tighten their grip and sense of responsibility over their proxies there.

I agree. Apple should tone down the virtue signaling about human rights, privacy and security. It makes them look very hypocritical at best. While Macs and iOS devices may be somewhat more secure than the competition they are not in any way bulletproof, as has been demonstrated time and again when security researchers find flaws. And in terms of humanistic reputation Apple is doing business with some truly nasty actors, both primary and secondary. Think about mining in Africa.

... A few years ago Foxconn employees jumped to death...

That had nothing to do with work conditions, this topic has been covered many times. To summarize, Foxconn hires hundreds of thousands of employees. The suicide rate at those factories are well below China’s national average. The reasons for suicide were your typical problems and had nothing to do with work conditions. The guy who “exposed” the situation was building his own narrative to get attention, people who he interviewed ended up suing him. When asked why, he said he was performing “theatre”. Um, yeah theatre on Ted Talk (or a similar venue), so after that he lost credibility as a journalist and we haven’t heard much from him again. But the media stuck to the narrative because it’s Apple, they get a lot of attention. Foxconn in the end had to do something really stupid, install nets, to quiet down the media. 

According to workers I met from SE Asia this is inline with how contractors take advantage of their employees. They even charge them a hefty fee for the opportunity to work! Apple should pull their contract from such corrupt executive culture, or force a major change and executive terminations. Unfair treatment of employees will be reflected in the quality of products that come out of those factories.