“A judge granted sanctions against Apple Inc. for dragging its feet in turning over documents in the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing Qualcomm Inc. of forcing the iPhone maker to use its chips exclusively,” Ian King and Kartikay Mehrotra report for Bloomberg.
“U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins in San Jose, California, ordered Apple to pay $25,000 for each day that it fails to produce the evidence starting Dec. 16,” King and Mehrotra report. “Apple has until Dec. 29 to turn over the documents or face even steeper fines, according to a court filing late Thursday.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Tim Cook’s Apple delaying something and slowing down proceedings?
Say it ain’t so.
SEE ALSO:
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Apple’s late, delayed, limited HomePod is looking more and more like something I don’t want – November 27, 2017
Why Apple’s HomePod is three years behind Amazon’s Echo – November 21, 2017
Under ‘operations genius’ Tim Cook, product delays and other problems are no longer unusual for Apple – November 20, 2017
Apple delays HomePod release to early 2018 – November 17, 2017
Apple CEO Tim Cook: The ‘operations genius’ who never has enough products to sell at launch – October 23, 2017
Apple’s desperate Mac Pro damage control message hints at a confused, divided company – April 6, 2017
Apple is misplaying the hand Steve Jobs left them – November 30, 2016
Apple delays AirPod rollout – October 26, 2016
Apple delays release of watchOS 2 due to bug – September 16, 2015
Apple delays HomeKit launch until autumn – May 14, 2015
Apple delays production of 12.9-inch ‘iPad Pro’ in face of overwhelming iPhone 6/Plus demand – October 9, 2014
Tim Cook’s mea culpa: iMac launch should have been postponed – April 24, 2013
Serious question: Why should Apple be sanctioned for this? During the Apple-Samsung trial, Samsung admitted to shredding documents and deleting computer files — for which the judge did nothing but verbally scold the Samsung lawyers.
Look up “whataboutism” and then seek treatment.
Apple is apparently good at slowing things down…
Maybe the batteries on their iPhones are failing… /s
Apple still keeps winning though, cry as much as you like about it, that ain’t gonna change a thing.
I only care about the user winning.
Apple user satisfaction rates are north of 95 percent so users are also winning. You should be happy!
That’s a popularity measure, I don’t do the popularity thing. And users include non-Apple users, not just your walled world view.
User satisfaction isn’t a popularity measure dummy, it’s a measure of how satisfied the user is with the product. By any measure Apple products are not popular, they have a minority market share. Users however, are satisfied with their very unpopular Apple products. Apple keeps winning!
Strong words coming from a bigger dummy!
Winning is for sports, not phones. Being I don’t own stock, I don’t giv a crap about whatever sport your watching.
Oh, and even your way, 5% is about 50,000,000 people. They don’t count?
Some people will always be unhappy about anything. You could send everyone free cookies on their birthday and more than 5% would complain.
Those 50 million aren’t unhappy and pissed off at Apple, they just have some things they’re not entirely satisfied with. No company can have 100 percent user satisfaction, even you should understand that. Apple keeps winning!
Forget 50,000,000, how about 1,000,000. They don’t count?
You are missing the point dum dum. Should Apple change its business model and focus on serving five percent or less of its customers instead of doing what makes 95 percent or more of its customers extremely happy and satisfied? Of course the small percentage of not totally satisfied customers matter, but you cannot please everyone 100 percent, ain’t possible dum dum. If Apple listened to people like you they’d already be out of business. All you have is bad advice. Lucky for us Apple doesn’t listen to dum dums like you and just keeps on winning!
Good to know they’re “playing to the curve”. How average of you…
’cause it’s about the “winning”… Who cares?
Apple’s not being honest, open, and transparent? Please, tell me no!
Tim Cook’s calculating how many days of $25,000 per day he can delay the course of justice. Then a light goes on! Hey, he thinks, with the Trump tax relief I can hold out for 13 years, 4 months, and 6 days. I could find a new job by then. Tim Cook smiles, relieved, then pens a thank you card to President Trump. Don’t you love happy endings?