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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 17:57:35 -0500
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david wrote:
> On this Fri, 22 Mar 2024 17:09:40 -0500, Hank Rogers wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> You hit upon why Apple gets caught in so many heinous lies.
> Lying is part of Apple's overall business plan.
> 
> They have the money to settle the lawsuits arising from their lies.
> Smaller companies can't afford to lie.
> 
> One lie could put smaller companies out of business.
> For Apple, lying about what they did is just part of their business plan.

Yes, it's just unbridled capitalism, and apple has managed to ascend to the 
very top of the gadget pyramid. Many other companies would dearly love to 
be as rich and greedy as apple, and by god, they're all trying their best.

They are like the Ferengis in some of the old star trek programs. They're 
just following the "Rules of acquisition".