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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:09:40 -0500
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Your Name wrote:
> On 2024-03-22 14:23:22 +0000, Oliver said:
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:18:15 +1300, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote
>>> What utter nonsense. It's not like any other company is any different, 
>>> and apart from a few loud-mouthed morons who want to fill their own 
>>> pockets at Apple's expense, nobody gives a flying crap that you can only 
>>> install iOS apps from teh Apple App Store.
>>
>> If you really are so clueless that you can't even tell the difference
>> between Apple & Google in terms of Apple's rapacious app market business
>> model, then you will never be able to understand why Apple is being sued.
>>
>> Apple will lose because Apple's business model is to be as anti-consumer as
>> they can possibly get away with being - without being sued for it.
>>
>> Only drug companies are as anti consumer as Apple is.
> 
> Why?? Because only Apple makes an iPhone? What complete crap.
> 
> What about Toyota being the only ones making a Corolla? What about 
> McDonalds only making Big Macs? What about... Every company on the planet 
> has their own copyrighted products.
> 
> So you can only install iPhone apps from the Apple App Store ... 99.9% of 
> their customers couldn't give a flying crap. It's only the whining greedy 
> scumbags and the conspiracy nutters who are complaing about it.
> 
> 
> 
>>> Epic, Google, etc. were whining on about how Apple charges too much in 
>>> fees for their app store, and then has pretty much the same thing for 
>>> developers wanting to use their store
>>
>> With Android, Windows & Linux, you can get your apps from anywhere you
>> want, without needing to get them from Google, Microsoft, or RedHat.
>>
>> How could you not know that?
> 
> That wasn't the point. If you want to sell your app on the Google Play 
> Store or the Epic Store, then you'll have to pay them for the privlege ... 
> just like they were complaining about Apple making them pay to have their 
> apps on the Apple App Store. It's the usual two-faced bullshit we've come 
> to expect from these greedy scum who complain about Apple only to then do 
> exactly the same thing.
> 
> Apple has basically become the fall guy and is sued by every idiot simply 
> because Apple has a lot of money that every greedy scumbag on the planet 
> wants to try and grab a handful off, no matter what idiotic reason they can 
> dredge up.  :-(
> 

Not to worry. Relax. Apple has lots of greedy scumbag lawyers too! Apple 
also has a HUGE amount of money at their disposal (that's how they can 
afford those scumbag lawyers). They'll simply peel off a few million and 
pay some fines and settlement cash, then back to business as usual. In a 
month, they'll have even more money than they started with.

It's been done many times in their past.