Apple's revenue: $400 Billion.
Meet Alex Roman. He is part of the 6 most powerful men running the Apple Corporate Empire.
Vice-President of Finance. One of the very few people with access to Tim Cook's personal office. Roman's job is squeezing App developers and ensuring iOS users can never escape the Apple store.
He testified in front of a California court to defend Apple fees.
The judge said he lied under oath. She says he is taking her for a fool.
From the Court decision:
In stark contrast to Apple’s initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option.*
To hide the truth, Apple's Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath.
Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise*
Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283/epic-v-apple-contempt-order.pdf
I mean, bill Gates has done a ton of really good things with his wealth.
Right, supposedly good things like making all research they perform freely available, providing billions in grants for healthcare and agricultural development, providing billions in funding to organizations like the WHO, etc.
Yeah, he used just a fraction of all he stole to do all that. He's still a morally bankrupt man IMO.
After he acquired it all and spent decades doing illegal stuff for which Microsoft received extensive anti trust fines. Lets not kid ourselves here is trying to redeem himself for his prior billionaire behaviour and it often comes off more as "greenwashing" than actually helping people.
Right, fuck people for trying to do good if they've ever done bad things in their past.
They can atone, but it doesn't make the effects of their past mistakes go away.
There’s also the massive tax breaks rich folks receive for donations.
Nah man, that wealth is stolen from tax payers.
I hear you, and I do like that billionaires like bill gates and buffet have pledged to donate or what not…
But my point still stands… they had no core values when they accumulated the wealth. Now gates is retired and bored and controls more wealth than a small country.
Sure, Carnegie hall is great, but the dude was still a cunt. Same with gates and buffet…
Buffet and Gates might be cunts of lesser evil though, I’ll give you that… but that’s like genocide or genocide light…
I hate using words like cunts and dick in a negative light, they are such great body parts, but whatevs
And customers, and (probably most of all) employees.
Bill Gates deserves the guillotine exactly as much as the rest of them.
Oh come on. He said he barely remembered who Epstein was!