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

  • @kingofras@lemmy.world
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    793 months ago

    I don’t think it can be overstated how far Apple and Tim are straying from their core values with this and the intelligence failures.

    It’s bad enough Tim really only made the Watch in his nearly 15y as CEO. His recent capitulation to the Regime and now this, it’s time to go buddy.

    You’re good at feeding shareholders and doing the stock buyback thing, but that’s not really what apple is. All of what apple is and you tried to mimic failed: the car, the ski goggles, the power mat and most recently “intelligence”.

    These are the signs a company has peaked and is just trying to ride the past successes.

    Thanks to Musk and Trump he of course looks like a half decent business leader, but when all the veils of secrecy are lifted and the privacy promises turn out to be empty, there isn’t much left.

    !deapple@lemm.ee

    • @atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It seems that he made claims in court that Apple the company did not knowingly engage in practices that would be considered anti-competitive under the law.

      “For a year and a half, Apple has engaged in bad faith, levying a variety of different and new fees to app developers to get around the spirit of the judicial order. It put up scare screens, engaged in sleazy privilege claims, and lied under oath to the judge about its decision-making. Normally these kinds of tactics happen without consequence for important business executives. But this time, the judge accused Apple Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, of having “outright lied under oath,” and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney for a criminal contempt investigation. She also went out of her way to blame Apple CEO Tim Cook directly.” - From the article.

  • @MisterMoo@lemmy.world
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    73 months ago

    I’m frankly shocked that Phil Schiller was on the “don’t be dishonest” train about anything.

  • @FourWaveforms@lemm.ee
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    63 months ago

    Inescapable consequences of letting zero-integrity optimization machines (psychopaths) run companies like this.

    Of course they do this, what else are they supposed to do? It’s their nature. Expecting otherwise is idiotic.

    Getting outraged by this is like getting mad at the sun for rising. But if the legal system displays this absurd sham outrage, everyone will continue to be distracted from the actual problem, which is that society has no mechanism for intercepting these individuals and keeping them away from roles where they will obviously do things like this, because of course they will.

    This is permitted constantly, we keep obtaining the same result constantly, all while the people who supposedly safeguard society gape and scratch their heads like orangutans. They are utterly taken aback that allowing the same transparently stupid situation doesn’t magically start working, providing an object lesson in the meaning of stupidity itself.