American corpo-propaganda. Apple doesn’t have land, doesn’t have guns, doesn’t have workers ready to die in combat. Their wealth is in IP, contracts, and (unusually) cash/stocks.
The FTC could order a raid on their offices tomorrow, freeze their corporate accounts, and breakup the company into four smaller companies (say Apple Silicon, Apple Mobile, Apple Desktop, Apple Software). And there’s jack-shit Apple would do in retaliation. In fact, this used to be a semi-common antitrust strategy until Reagan came about.
The only thing truly preventing state intervention is neoliberal/libertarian/corporations-as-people ideology. That’s the real enemy that turns politicians impotent and complacent. But it’s a made-up, self-inflicted weakness.
American corpo-propaganda. Apple doesn’t have land, doesn’t have guns, doesn’t have workers ready to die in combat. Their wealth is in IP, contracts, and (unusually) cash/stocks.
The FTC could order a raid on their offices tomorrow, freeze their corporate accounts, and breakup the company into four smaller companies (say Apple Silicon, Apple Mobile, Apple Desktop, Apple Software). And there’s jack-shit Apple would do in retaliation. In fact, this used to be a semi-common antitrust strategy until Reagan came about.
The only thing truly preventing state intervention is neoliberal/libertarian/corporations-as-people ideology. That’s the real enemy that turns politicians impotent and complacent. But it’s a made-up, self-inflicted weakness.