Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral

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• FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Inescapable consequences of letting zero-integrity optimization machines (psychopaths) run companies like this.

  Of course they do this, what else are they supposed to do? It’s their nature. Expecting otherwise is idiotic.

  Getting outraged by this is like getting mad at the sun for rising. But if the legal system displays this absurd sham outrage, everyone will continue to be distracted from the actual problem, which is that society has no mechanism for intercepting these individuals and keeping them away from roles where they will obviously do things like this, because of course they will.

  This is permitted constantly, we keep obtaining the same result constantly, all while the people who supposedly safeguard society gape and scratch their heads like orangutans. They are utterly taken aback that allowing the same transparently stupid situation doesn’t magically start working, providing an object lesson in the meaning of stupidity itself.

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• MisterMoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m frankly shocked that Phil Schiller was on the “don’t be dishonest” train about anything.

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• kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think it can be overstated how far Apple and Tim are straying from their core values with this and the intelligence failures.

  It’s bad enough Tim really only made the Watch in his nearly 15y as CEO. His recent capitulation to the Regime and now this, it’s time to go buddy.

  You’re good at feeding shareholders and doing the stock buyback thing, but that’s not really what apple is. All of what apple is and you tried to mimic failed: the car, the ski goggles, the power mat and most recently “intelligence”.

  These are the signs a company has peaked and is just trying to ride the past successes.

  Thanks to Musk and Trump he of course looks like a half decent business leader, but when all the veils of secrecy are lifted and the privacy promises turn out to be empty, there isn’t much left.

  !deapple@lemm.ee

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Phil should have been CEO.

    Tim was a mistake.

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    • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t innovate anymore my ass

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Values mean nothing, principles are rational ideals, values are aspirational. They aren’t “straying from their core values”. This is who they have always been. Everything else was public relations. When faced with moral decisions, they will lie for money. Period.

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    • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s literally not possible for a billionaire to have any “core values”. It’s an oxymoron.

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• drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What did he lie about? What was the larger case about?

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It seems that he made claims in court that Apple the company did not knowingly engage in practices that would be considered anti-competitive under the law.

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  • mj_marathon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Read the article, maybe?

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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      First of all how dare you

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• devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As long as they paid the king it should all be fine.

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s gonna be an expensive bribe to Pammy

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  • kingofras@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And his skin colour doesn’t help either. Word on the street is she may be a tiny bit racist.

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• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jail his ass

  If I do that, I go to jail, if he does it, he should get the same punishment

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When the punishment to a law is a fine it’s only a law to poor people.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Make fines dependent on income and net worth

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Absolutely. Honestly fines should generally be abolished. Because it’s fine is nothing but the cost of doing business for the wealthy. However if they had to go to prison or actually start sacrificing some of their own time then shit gets real.

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    • Reyali@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unless fines become a % of a person’s wealth. Make everyone feel it equally.

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