Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costing Apple $900k

Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by JudgeWapner on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:24PM (#19578134)

good for him for finding a market inefficiency and exploiting it. I dont know why people's moral compunction kicks in for profiting off a trillion dollar company. He used their system for his advantage, just like apple uses the UK's "double irish" system to their advantage. It's just business. You're not depriving anyone of property.

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by cornellwright on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:54PM (#19578324)

It's not "exploiting a market inefficiency" anymore than someone breaking into your house is just exploiting a lock inefficiency. It's plain old fraud.

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by yungstevejobs on Friday April 05, 2019 @11:18AM (#19583379)

Except one of those is legal and the other is not. I guess it’s okay to steal from someone after they have x amount of money right?

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by JudgeWapner on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:54PM (#19586940)

it's ok to steal from them after they've stolen X billion from USGOV and consumers. Absolutley. and AAPL essentially writes its own laws. Let consumers draft legislation with the same access and bribes/lobbying as AAPL and see how long this stays illegal.

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by yungstevejobs on Saturday April 06, 2019 @08:52PM (#19594048)

They didn’t steal anything. Sorry our tax laws are shit and they used them to their benefit. Do you personally pay more taxes than you should? I doubt it.

For clarification I don’t like the practice of off shoring your money. Apple isn’t the only corporation that does this though. You’re misplacing your blame when it really should be at the US government. We can work to get rid of money in politics but for now that is unfortunately where our country is headed. For the corporations.

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by _cerv on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:11PM (#19578722)

Pretty sure this puts a strain on the relationship between Costco and Apple on some level. It’s also just a dick thing to do.

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by Carpetsmoker on Thursday April 04, 2019 @11:37PM (#19579476)

So pickpocketing is just finding a "wardrobe inefficiency"? Burglary is finding a "lock inefficiency"?

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Re:Oregon students returned thousands of fake iPhones, costi... by JudgeWapner on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:51PM (#19586912)

Corporations don't have pockets, and burglary is theft. If AAPL had a policy that allowed you in their premises and legally allowed you to remove items, then that's a market inefficiency.

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