Oh, on re-reading your comment I find that I actually agree with you: > It doesn’t matter if every expert concurred, arguments from authority can not lead to o

Oh, on re-reading your comment I find that I actually agree with you: > It doesn’t matter if every expert concurred, arguments from authority can not lead to opinion X becoming superior to opinion Y. > At least not in a logically valid way. But that's not what happened. What happened is that Apple dropped their argument Y without much fighting, which they previously upheld in face of government pressure.