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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Them not having the power to do things by themselves and asking other people to help them by putting the screws to someone is exactly how they got into trouble in the first place.
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Here's what getting into antitrust trouble looks like:
http://www.law360.com/articles/85401...rust-jail-time
Getting in trouble would thus mean senior executives going to jail for criminal antitrust. Not only didn't the Department of Justice pursue that, I can't see them doing anything likely to push down the stock price. Apple may not be too big to fail, but I do believe it is too big to really punish.
The Apple executive who made the most incriminating statements, in terms of antitrust, was Steve Jobs. And he died before it would have been possible to indict him. But if Jobs lived, do any of us think he would now be in prison? I think not, because it would be so politically unpopular.