Re: Apple inflated the cost of its products through anticompetitive conduct

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:44:01 +1300, Your Name wrote:

That is, if the DOJ successfully penalizes Apple's unethical behavior in
the federal lawsuit, does that loss leave open these class action lawsuits?

 
You do relaise that despite the usual misleading sensationalist
headlines, many of these latest idiotic lawsuits are aimed at *all* the
big tech companies: Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc. ... not just Apple.

+1

Lawyers keep companies honest, so I wouldn't be surprised if the recent
Apple $490 million loss in court due to Tim Cook misleading investors
happens also to those others you named, Google, Meta & Microsoft.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/15/apple-reaches-490-million-settlement-over-tim-cooks-china-sales-comments-.html

When I google, I see google paid $700 million in 2023 for what Apple did.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-12-19/google-to-pay-700-million-to-us-states-consumers-in-app-store-settlement

And Meta paid $725 million in 2022 for leaking its users privacy records.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/facebook-parent-meta-pay-725-mln-settle-lawsuit-relating-cambridge-analytica-2022-12-23/

But it's much harder to find Microsoft losing similar lawsuits recently.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2002/06/04/sec-says-microsoft-broke-law/3ac765b3-cdd8-4abb-a068-2d0e12a895eb/

Do you have a more recent lawsuit where lawyers had to keep Microsoft
honest as they are doing in the past three years for Apple, Meta & Google?