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From: Hank Rogers <Hank@nospam.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:46:42 -0500
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Your Name wrote:
> On 2024-03-30 15:14:45 +0000, Ken Blake said:
> 
>> On 30 Mar 2024 08:22:22 GMT, Hank Rogers 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.
>>>
>>> Poor trump has the same problem.
>>
>> Yes. Exactly. Every Trump crazy says poor old Trump is being picked on by
>> the people who enforce our laws and then when he loses, he blames them.
>>
>> Just like all those Apple crazies do when Apple loses its fraud cases.
>>
>> To them, since Apple paid a half billion dollars for the privilege of not
>> admitting guilt, to those crazies, that means Apple was wholly innocent.
> 
> "Innocent until proven guilty" ... since Apple (or any other company) 
> wasn't actually found guilty in the court, then they have to be presumed to 
> be innocent. As others have said, an out-of-court settlement is more 
> usually simply the cheapest way to stop the morons who are suing them - 
> it's not worth wasting billions of dollars in an on-going court case with 
> numerous appeals when you can pay a couple of million and that's it.
> 
> The reality is that anyone with more than one braincell knows the sole 
> reason for most of these idiotic court cases is just some greedy moron 
> trying to grab some money for themselves from a big company. How many 
> "winners" donate all the money to charities?? Pretty much none of them at 
> all. It's no different to some homeless person throwing themselves in front 
> of a rich guy's Rolls Royce and then claiming they were run over.
> 

You're right. Poor Apple.