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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
I'm pretty much a dunce when it comes to this stuff.... But, what good would impeaching statements do?
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It keeps Apple honest.
For example, if Jobs told Isaacson in June of 2009 that he called the publishers with a plan for fighting Amazon's e-book dominance, and Apple testified at trial that the first contact they had with the publishers was in November of 2009, when the publishers called them, Jobs' statement would be admissible to impeach Apple's statement.
Obviously, you hope for more of a smoking gun, like "We've got this great plan to sell e-books, although our lawyers say it's illegal."