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> The problem is that it exposes exactly the rhetoric that people hate from Apple. […] It's about as asinine as when Nintendo

So, you admin Apple isn’t the only one. I think you can find examples from any company, especially the publicly traded ones.

Similarly, you’ll never hear a CEO say their new product is decent while the previous one was so-so. The new one always is better, and the old one doesn’t get mentioned, but is implied to be good.

> this is the sort of behavior that will be heavily scrutinized during antitrust hearings.

I doubt it. Even if Apple were exceptional in making this kind of statements, what’s anti-competitive in making them, or in making bad products?