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Apple has an aggressive legal strategy because they can afford to bend/break the law first and let things play out in court (this case was first filed in early 2020 before the pandemic) while their competitors generally cannot.

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Case in point: reaching out to the President of the United States to intervene.

Crazy.

Or leasing a new Mercedes every few months so that you never have to have a license plate and register your car like the rest of us plebians...and can illegally park in handicapped parking spaces because cops can't issue a ticket to a vehicle with no plate.

Who does that?

Steve Jobs

LOL

A mountain of pettiness and I imagine, childhood frustrations.

Why on earth can you drive without a registration of the vehicle. This simply indicates the law is broken. Still scummy behaviour but fixing the law so you have to get a plate before driving would solve this (like it's in many places of the world).

This wasn't a registration issue. In CA, new car dealers immediately register cars upon sale. The issue is that license plates formerly weren't issued until sometime later, so it was legal to drive a new car for up to 6 months with no plates. That law was fixed as of 2019. Now dealers have to install temporary license plates.

https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/news-and-media/dmv-reminds-mot...

Steve Jobs was notorious for trading in his car every 6 months so that he could park in handicapped spaces without being ticketed.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/steve-jobs-car-apple-ceo-l...

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