Comment on Bloomberg - Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments

• yopla@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Having the legal staff and having the upper management from another country able to understand it at a conceptual level and integrate it into their decision making process is entirely different. One of my friend is a lawyer in France who specialises in helping US corporation handle their subsidiaries here. There’s not a week that passes without him being asked how to do something illegal here but legal in the US and the client being baffled and literally refusing to understand that they can’t.

  The main one being firing people, from the way he talks about it, he seems to be earning half his income re-explaining to the same people over and over that no you can’t just give 2 weeks notice and fire people at will just because you need a quick expense reduction before the end of the quarter to amuse the shareholders. It just doesn’t register.

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  • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it’s not an issue, my point is apple has access to the highest talent and legal advice. There’s no way they are unaware of the realities.

    We can be sure they employ European law staff themselves.

    Conclusion being their actions are attempts to move the window on these types of law. They are aware of the existing status quo, but are driving to advance it.

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    • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is worse, because it implies malice.

      But never the less, this tactic would work perfectly in a US court. It probably won’t as EU courts don’t make decisions based on the judge’s feefees like US courts, and precedent and case law mean nothing in European civil laws systems.

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      • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I never applied a value judgement.

        The suggestion that European courts are universally free from manipulation, political meddling or influence is a fairytale. They are leagues better than US courts in this regard, but again we can be sure a megacorp like apple is pulling every lever at their disposal

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