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    Newsletter Issue #967: Samsung Attacks “Unreasonable” Juries

    June 15th, 2018

    I thought long ago that stories about the years of legal skirmishing between Apple and Samsung had become downright tiring. I’ve barely kept abreast of the original trials, the appeals, and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2017 in which the justices decided not to review a lower court ruling which thus upheld the ruling […]


    Apple Has to Pay Up in E-book Antitrust Case

    March 8th, 2016

    So it’s over. Apple’s attempts to appeal a $450 million court judgment for antitrust behavior got turned back by the U.S. Supreme Court. By refusing to consider findings that Apple, along with several publishers, were engaged in a scheme to fix e-book prices, thus resulting in higher prices to customers, it let the lower court ruling […]


    More About Apple and Security

    February 24th, 2016

    Although there has been plenty of fear-mongering about Apple’s approach to security over the years, the fact remains that there’s still no compelling need to install antivirus software on your Mac. While there is security software for Android users, it’s not needed for iOS. If you are careful about the sites you visit, and you don’t click […]


    Apple and the U.S. Government: Talking Past Each Other

    February 23rd, 2016

    This story has lasted several news cycles, which itself is unusual. Between fretting over who the Republicans can rally behind to stop Donald Trump in that crazy Presidential campaign, there are back and forth discussions about Apple. The main issue: Whether Apple should be forced to create a backdoor that would allow the FBI to use brute […]