Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple

Alan Browne wrote on Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:04:20 -0400 :

Which will never happen.  While Apple may be found negligent in some
way, they (and Cook) will not be found to be committing criminal
conspiracy in any way.
 
If this is too confusing for you, I suggest you look up an easy case
such as Enron where deliberate fraud took place (and people ended up in
prison).
 
You really do not understand the paragraph you cited.

Apple loses plenty of legal court cases but pays their way out of them.
For example, Apple was criminally charged in Paris, you know.
<https://duckduckgo.com/?va=i&t=hb&q=apple+charged+criminal+france+paris+prosecutor>

What's different is Apple paid their way out of it, where the French
prosecutors office received the payment in lieu of a guilty plea.

Over just the past few years, Apple has lost so many cases that they've
paid billions of dollars in resulting "settlements" just so that they don't
have to publicly admit they are guilty - but in the French case - part of
the deal was Apple had to publicly admit their guilt for 30 days.

One cynical result is that it was the only 30 days in Apple's history that
Apple was honest about their many purposeful crimes against the consumer.