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Re: Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral

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Post by spacedcowboy »

toyg wrote: post #351
nemomarx wrote: post #231

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what kind of flights are you buying that cost 3500 for a business seat? do you get them very last minute?

From the perspective of a UK flyer, $3500 for a return ticket over the Atlantic in business class looks fairly cheap. Last time i checked (with one-month advance), I was quoted 4500+ GBP. Regardless, you don't throw away your headset after a flight, obviously, so even if the ticket were half the price you'd still come out ahead after two or three trips. This said, headsets like AVP improve the flying experience but d…

Yeah, it's UKUSA for me, and unless I'm using airmiles, $3K5 is pretty cheap for one of those flights.

The headset is heavy, but I find that's much ameliorated by lying backwards a bit (which is easy to do in a business-class lie-flat seat).

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Post by scarface_74 »

tripzilch wrote: post #379
scarface_74 wrote: post #375

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Who do you think would have ended up paying the 145% tarriffs - Apple and Android phone sellers or consumers? This is all on US voters.

Okay, sure. And while I understand and share your frustrations with the outcome of recent US elections, democracy is a bad proxy for morality, or to put it bluntly: If 9 out of 10 people voted for gang rape, it's still wrong for a multi national corporation to take advantage of that.

I’m very well aware of the tyranny of the majority. My still living parents grew up in the Jim Crow south. Everything they are doing now to demonize immigrants and LGBT they did in the 80s with “welfare queens” and “Willy Horton”.

The difference is that I don’t expect any better.

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Post by h2zizzle »

TeaBrain wrote: post #356
h2zizzle wrote: post #355

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The difference between causation and coincidence.

How predictable. I'm referring to the purpose of the publication grouping stats together in a story. Saying "causation and coincidence" is to say nothing. There is never a clear direct "causation" in financial price movements, and both the readers and the publication are aware of this, but that does not mean there is not an implicit narrative. Financial news publications don't mention random coincidental stats just f…

Yes, that was my original point. Other than

>and both the readers and the publication are aware of this

Publications wouldn't bother if they thought that readers could discern that this was what they were doing. As you say, the point is to create an implicit narrative; it's a narrative of causation where only coincidence actually can be proven, and often where the actual cause of price movement is heavily obfuscated (partly by the assured connection-building that the publications engage in).

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Post by buran77 »

lebed2045 wrote: post #380
buran77 wrote: post #324

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> So was Roman incompetent or just kissing ass hoping to become the President of Finance Why do you think Apple sent the Vice President to such a high visibility trial and not the President, who is the person with the ultimate authority and accountability in Finance? In any large enough organization (and I haven't stumbled on one where this wasn't the case), private or public, the people at the top are shielded by a…

Could you please provide any proof for: “if you look at any large company’s CEO, they’re there because they took these hits or provided plausible deniability for jig boss in the past”. Never thought from this angle, interesting theory

Are you asking if any company, institution, or political party documented asking their subordinates to commit illegal acts in order to provide cover for the head honchos?

Generally no but when you look into scandals like Dieselgate, Enron, Lehman Brothers and others you'll see a pattern of lower level employees being pressured to sign off on misleading documents that the higher ups could just sell as "real". Work in any company or institution above a certain level and you'll see it every day.

It's a test for loyalty, it's a way to select a successor, and very importantly a way to subsequently guarantee that loyalty and keep the ambitious deputies in check. Every large organization is a pyramid scheme of avoiding accountability and passing it on to the lower level.

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Post by mark336 »

pjmlp wrote: post #27
post_break wrote: post #15

The top brass at Apple just think they are above everyone else. Remember when Tim Cook lied about Apple not giving anyone special terms in the app store and that everyone gets the same deal. And then it came out Netflix was one that got special terms? The sheer arrogance of Apple leaders is astounding. They think they are outright owed rent on anything that runs on an iPhone, iPad, etc. Apple thinks developers are no…

Apple always has been like that, see The Cult of Mac book. However, it appears being at the edge of bankruptcy, and having turned the ship around has made them paranoid of losing a single cent. When Apple Store came out it was great. I was a Nokia employee at the time, and 30% was a dream compared with what you would have to pay to phone operators, app listenings in magazines with SMS download codes, for Blackberry,…

Bill Gates saved their ass. I don't know why Apple is so arrogant.

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Post by mark336 »

-1 for Apple vs Epic -1 for Apple contempt of FTC Monopoly ruling +1 for Apples DEI stance -1 for Apple going to Trump over DMA rulings in Europe And GTFOH, now Apple is pulling the rug on China and moving most iPhone production to India? If you want to stay on top of the major happenings in Big Tech or chips see my news forum site: http://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
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