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I wonder how bad this is going to get with the recently announced French report on flight MS80 being downed by faulty Apple equipment (battery fire from either iPad or iPhone 6S.) I smell lawyers. Lots of them.


How is that related to this case?


It's related because it's Apple, and I can well imagine that a fire caused by a faulty iPhone battery, killing dozens of people and downing an airplane, is going to be a pretty costly lawsuit to fight/settle along with this anti-trust suit?


Apple has an higher revenue than the GDP of most countries, including some Western European ones, and an healthy profit margin. I think they can afford to fight two parallel lawsuits.


GDP doesn't matter when it comes to angry families with pitchforks and torches.

Start thinking about the reputational and potential future stock damages from just having this information coming out.




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