Apple
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Big Tech companies are monsters.
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There is a growing legislative movement – yes, elected politicians are always looking for something to do – to create and enforce a “right to repair” your stuff.
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Economics
Apple Gets to $1 Trillion – Trafficking in Goods They’ve Stolen
by Seton Motley August 8, 2018The world last week was rightly agog when Tech uber-giant Apple became the first company on the planet ever to top a $1 trillion market cap.
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EconomicsInternet/TelecomLegal Affairs
Intellectual Property: Everyone Loves Getting Paid For It – Everyone Hates Paying For It
by Seton Motley June 7, 2018“Hypocrisy: feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel.”
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Have you wondered why stocks like Apple, Microsoft and Google continue to make big gains in the U.S. indexes such as the Dow-Jones Industrials? These are the kind of big, successful companies that central banks favor.
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EconomicsGovernment
Worse Than Domestic Obama Cronyism? Exporting It Globally
by Seton Motley June 14, 2017We just narrowly escaped the cronyism-infested eight years of the Barack Obama Administration. If you were a Leftist – the $4-trillion-per-year-government world was your oyster. The biggest bureaucratic favors of your wildest imaginings – were only a campaign contribution away.
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Internet/Telecom
Apple: ‘We Won’t Pay You. We’ll Keep Using Your Stuff – But We Won’t Pay You’
by Seton Motley May 6, 2017Computer giant Apple is currently in a huge intellectual property dispute with tech innovation giant Qualcomm.
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After years of investigations, lawsuits, and fines, a checkered past of patent abuse and exploitation appears to have caught up with a major U.S. chip developer.
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Internet/Telecom
Apple Sues To Get Paid For Their Intellectual Property – And To Not Pay For Everyone Else’s
by Seton Motley March 11, 2017Hypocrisy, thy name is Apple.
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Internet/TelecomRegulation
FCC’s Haphazard Privacy Policy Gaps Disserve Consumers
by Scott Cleland October 22, 2016The FCC’s proposed broadband privacy rules are haphazard and have more random and conflicting “gaps” than Swiss cheese has holes.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC’s Competition Policy Blind Spot for Dominant “Edge” Incumbents – GAFA
by Scott Cleland June 17, 2016The evidence increasingly proves that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, companies collectively known as “GAFA,” are the dominant consumer-technology, “edge” platforms/incumbents in their respective communication sector markets of: information, smartphones, social media, and ecommerce. The evidence below shows Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon to clearly be the emerging dominant communications incumbents of the 21st century communications sector ecosystem and that an apparent FCC assumption that “edge” companies cannot be a competition problem is both naïve and erroneous.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google’s Omnipresent Tracking Much Harder to Leave than an ISP for Privacy
by Scott Cleland May 21, 2016Since Google chose that apt metaphor, and boasted about how easy Google makes it to “check out” your private data and “leave” to a competitor, lets test if you can ever “in fact leave” Google-Eye’s pervasively invasive online surveillance — from a privacy perspective.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sophia Cope: Apple vs. The Federal Government
by Jesse Hathaway March 1, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Sophia Cope about the Federal District Court for the District of Central California’s recent demand that Apple, the $700 billion tech company producing consumer products like the iPhone and iPad, assist the Federal Bureau of Investigations with their investigation into the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack by devising a way to unlock the deceased terrorist’s iPhone without a password.