Apple 'Likely' to Face Sanctions in South Korea Over Unfair Carrier Contracts

[deanthedev]

That's a good thing, as it shows that South Korea is going through a dismantling of old ways. Paying a friend of a friend to help you with government red tape is common all over the planet. In the US we still do it, but semi-hide it by hiring people into civilian lucrative jobs afterwards.

In any case, it has zero to do with Apple and its carrier contracts.



That might just show that the US still protects Apple execs even more than Korea used to protect Samsung execs.

Some think Jobs should've gotten jail time for his stock scandal, same as other less fortunate execs of smaller companies. Others think he should've gone to trial for his secretive anti-poaching and other anti-trust plots.

But, just like used to happen with Samsung execs, Jobs was deemed too valuable to charge with anything. There's very little difference in the types of influence going on in both cases. Well, except Samsung actually is critical to South Korea's economy and defense, unlike Apple.

The mental gymnastics you go through to try and back your ridiculous claims us truly astounding.

 

[kdarling]

The mental gymnastics you go through to try and back your ridiculous claims us truly astounding.

I just don't think that Samsung's execs going to jail are in any way related to why Apple got called out for its carrier contracts. (Not to mention that it hardly shows Samsung getting special treatment. In fact, quite the opposite.)

As for Jobs, I'm repeating what one of his defenders said:

“Jobs dodged a bullet because of 1) his value to Apple's shareholders, 2) his value to the U.S. economy, and 3) just plain luck that neither Apple's board nor the SEC found a smoking gun to force them to do something they didn't want to do.” - Was Steve Jobs a Criminal? Fox Business

In other words, he escaped partly because he was CEO of Apple.

 

[0924487]

South Korea? The home of Samsung? The country with the corrupt government? The country that is run by Samsung?

Who woulda thunk it?

and back home our president is under prostitution and interest group investigation...