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On 2024-03-30 07:40:19 +0000, Ken Blake said:
> On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:57:41 +1300, Your Name wrote:
>> 
>> They're picking on Apple simply because Apple has a huge bank balance 
>> and they all greedily want to try to grab a piece of it for themselves.
> 
> The reason for Apple losing all these lawsuits is Apple is unethical.
> 
> Do you seriously think the recent settling with Apple for half a billion
> dollars worth of outright fraud, is the DOJ "picking on poor old Apple"?
> 
> Poor Apple commits fraud and has to pay a half billion dollars as a result.

If you lok hard enough, you'll find every "big business" company on the 
planet "commits fraud" to some degree ... it's often called "marketing" 
where they tell "white lies". More usually it's simply a mistake due to 
having so many employees that nobody really knows what is goping on 
everywhere.

The most obvious example is in sales days where the business usually 
says "up to 50% off storewide", but when you go into thre store most 
things are only 10% reduced with one or two items that they have had 
trouble selling are reduced by "50%" ... from the original 
manufacturer's suggested retail price, rather than the actual price the 
store was selling it for the previous day.