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That would be a nice touch - UK Apple high level manager in jail | 555 comments | Create New Account
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Apple's really asking for it, so to speak
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT
If I were an Apple engineer, I would cringe to see my
employer engaging in such pettiness. What in the world is
Apple thinking? They have possibly the most valuable brand
name on the planet, but recently they seem determined to
drag their company's name through the mud. Not their
products, mind you - I think the public still has a very
positive view of the quality of the iPhone, iPad, etc - but
Apple itself seems to act like a bunch of jerks. The only
notable exception was the apology for ditching Google and
foisting Apple Maps on their customers.

Seriously, Apple is acting cowardly and defensive with all
of these lawsuits. Imagine if Tim Cook said "If our
competitors think they can make better products than we can,
let them go right ahead. Bring it on, and may the best
company win". Nothing would actually change in the
marketplace. With or without these lawsuits, there will be
other smartphones and tablets for consumers to choose from.
But Apple would have the moral high ground. People might
choose Apple's products *because* of such a stance on
patents, rather than *despite* it like they do now.

Apple is fighting a war they cannot win, and trashing their
own name in the process.

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Corporate Responsibility
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:25 PM EDT
Contempt of Court for an individual person usually results in some time
in a cool dark place. In some cases the incarceration is 24 or 48 hours,
just sufficient to get a taste of the lilac switch. IIRC individuals have
been held in cells for the duration of the trial in which the misbehaviour
occurred, it seems completely at the discretion of the judge. So do
corporations keep a patsy to go down for them? Or would Mr Cook
now be in danger of being clapped in irons should he ever step
on English soil? Hypothetical, I know, contempt is not yet in the record.

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Mom's response to this
Authored by: DannyB on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 02:29 PM EDT
I would be very pleasantly surprised if Apple got into any trouble over this.

If I have learned one thing over the last ten years, a bad actor can disregard
court orders, or can creatively interpret them, with impunity. At least in US
courts.

Can't judge Koh simply override a UK court? After all, it works for Microsoft
to have a court in its back yard override a German court.

Needless to say, in the past decade I've become very cynical.


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The price of freedom is eternal litigation.

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That would be a nice touch - UK Apple high level manager in jail
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 03:11 PM EDT

Having Apple found in contempt and as a response ordering an appropriate arrest warrent to the Apple UK upper most manager (CEO equivalent or some such) to spend time in jail until such time as Apple properly complyed with the order with such time in jail to be no less then 24 hours.

That 24 hours bit is just in case Apple responds immediately before the CEO is arrested. I'm sure the recognition of having to spend even a single day in jail will give a nice reality check to the ego of the Apple Corporate Culture.

RAS

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Contempt of court? How, when?
Authored by: ByteJuggler on Saturday, October 27 2012 @ 09:01 AM EDT
How would this happen, and is there realistically any chance
that it might? (I'd be infuriated if I was either the UK
courts or Samsung, with this action by Apple.)

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