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This is a great first step, but it's going to be a long, hard battle from here on out. Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it
by w1ntermute 14y ago
This is a great first step, but it's going to be a long, hard battle from here on out. Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it comes to charges like this, one of the reasons why I feel that it should have been tried by judges, particularly considering the complex and technical nature of the subject matter.
- wtvanhest 14y agoAny American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company I'm not sure if this is true. I don't think most American's see Apple as an Apple Pie type of American company. I could be wrong, but I have never heard anyone say, I bought an iPad because it is an American product. I say this as someone who is probably more supportive of American companies and not really supportive of Apple at all, so maybe I have my own bias, but I don't think so.
- randallu 14y agoMostly on the radio I hear about Apple and Chinese labor, so they seem like a multinational company more than an American company even though they do "command and control" from the US. Also they don't employ a huge number of Americans compared to other large companies (and excluding retail they remain pretty small, esp. compared to Microsoft). Maybe the valley is different too, because a large proportion of the population are immigrants.
- jjtheblunt 14y agoMore data: they employ many Americans, and the campus is filled with them (of all sorts of ancestries, not exclusively imigrants from India or China). According to http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=aapl they employ a number of people adequate to sustain a revenue/employee of $2.351 million/year. The factories are not Apple's, but are contracted manufacturers, the same used by many others (Dell, etc).
- sounders 14y agoI agree with you about linking Apple and Chinese. When I think of the Apple labor force I automatically think Foxconn, which leads to thoughts of labour camps and worker suicide, not that that's the whole picture of course.
- debacle 14y ago> Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company I disagree with that statement. If you read the groklaw piece linked below, the jury was actually siding with Samsung before Hogan started practicing law.
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- taligent 14y ago> Any American jury is going to be biased against a foreign company when it comes to charges like this. Complete load of unsubstantiated, borderline xenophobic nonsense.
- eco 14y agoWell, Apple did play the American company vs. foreign company card during the trial. Apple feels that it can carry some weight with the jury.