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by branksy 2807 days ago
What?! It's criminal fraud, it's illegal and should be illegal period.

Your argument is extremely dangerous, it's no different from "of course you got robbed and beaten, what are you expecting when you walk into a dangerous neighborhood?"

There's a very important line between what's illegal/criminal (robbery, fraud) and what's merely objectionable/distasteful (not selling repair parts), and it's a dangerous game to confuse the two.
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neolefty 2807 days ago
It's not black and white.

Apple knows it's increasing the reward of fraud — and therefore its own loss to fraud — by not selling parts. But Apple accepts that cost and chooses only to take enforcement actions, not market actions.

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close04 2807 days ago
The fact that Apple knows the risk and considers it still makes sense financially to maintain their policy has nothing to do with the situation being "black or white".

The practice described in this article is illegal, plain and simple. It's fraud. It is very much black and white. Finding some "moral" justification for why you may think it's OK to do it doesn't change this.

I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell but you're playing the victim blaming game. And yes, I know it sounds ridiculous to say Apple is a victim but it's still stealing and you're justifying it. Sounds a lot like the people who blame the rape victim for dressing "inappropriately" and "increasing the reward".

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Daishiman 2807 days ago
Dude, _nobody_ cares about the legality of it. We're looking at it from the market perspective. And in the market perspective Apple can do a lot of things to prevent this rather than whine about the obvious results of its policy.

As a trillion-dollar company, I couldn't give less of a shit about its victimhood.

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close04 2807 days ago
I do and that’s why I commented. Dude. You seem to think that any opinion different from yours should simply be suppressed. That’s a good label to have attached to your comments to put them in perspective.

If you wanted a venue where everyone has to agree with you or shut up your living room was more appropriate.

And I’ll have to say your definition of “nobody” is extremely narrow based on the dynamic of the votes for those opinion “nobody cares about”.

Although I’ll admit the “I’m OK with stealing if the company is rich and I don’t like ‘em” group is in the lead.

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