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Originally Posted by HansTWN
All I am saying that such behavior is anti-capitalistic. Are companies amoral? Are people amoral? Companies are run by humans.
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It's perfectly capitalistic. They are attempting to use the resources they possess (both material and intellectual) to maximize the return on those same resources. They are leaving no stone unturned in their quest to maximize the value they have at their command. If they can do it by intensifying production of iPads while keeping employment constant (assuming the market will absorb all the iPads they can make), they'll do it. If they can do it by using the courts to block competitors (or at least trip them up a bit), they'll do it. This is how capitalist entities (persons, corporations, states, what have you) have always behaved.