[Dylan16807]

Okay there's an asterisk on the "had to", which is "unless you want an unstable phone". There's plenty of evidence for that.

Apple lost because they did a bad thing, but I disagree with your characterization of what the bad thing was. In particular I will note that your quote says that they settled and what they were accused of, which is very different from a verdict.

[SideQuark]

Simply read the court docs, which I linked. Or go read proper legal sites where the case is laid out with evidence. Stop making assumption you want to be true, which has been this entire thread.

They settled because discovery pulled out docs showing they knew full well what they did, on purpose, and they settled for a half billion dollars because they stood to lose far more in court if a jury saw that evidence. There is no "we were trying to be nice" defense that would counter their internal documents and discussions demonstrating otherwise.

Apply doesn't hand out half billion payouts for touchy feely reasons.

[Dylan16807]

> knew full well what they did, on purpose

Of course they made the update on purpose and knowing what it would do, but that is not the bar for being malicious and causing truly unnecessary slowdowns.

(If it's unclear, when I wrote above "The only thing they did on purpose" I meant the only relevant problem they caused on purpose. Obviously they do a million things on purpose.)

I'm not going to read a thousand pages of documents to look for maliciousness, if you're not going to point to a specific one, and you're not linking to a news article that has any relevant quotes of those documents.

Reading all of that is not "simple".

Can't you show me the specific evidence that made you so sure? I'm not asking you to search through, just for the information you already had.

> Apply doesn't hand out half billion payouts for touchy feely reasons.

I keep saying they did a bad thing. That is not disputed.