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Take Apple's non-compete scandal with other tech companies that effectively kept the salaries of engineers across the entire industry down. If you are a progra
by jasonlotito 7y ago
Take Apple's non-compete scandal with other tech companies that effectively kept the salaries of engineers across the entire industry down. If you are a programmer, Apple hurt you salary prospects. [0]
Or what about collusion with other publishers for price fixing. Literally that Apple violated federal antitrust law. [1]
It's not a company's job to do illegal things.[2]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Apple_Inc.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Antitrust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#Antitrus...
- threeseed 7y agoThat last one in particular was ridiculous in hindsight. Apple never had a monopoly on either MP3 players or online music stores.