> If you can assume one side thought a settlement is better than an outcome via trial, can you also assume the other side thought so too? No. The cost factor h

> If you can assume one side thought a settlement is better than an outcome via trial, can you also assume the other side thought so too? No. The cost factor has higher weight on one side of that equation. Apple is one of the largest companies on earth, with an expert and carefully curated legal team. The other side is a loose association of individual interests. Unless you believe that the legal process is absolutely fair, and that its outcomes are in no way related to the opposing parties' "legal burn rate". In that case, your reasoning is correct. But that is not the case.