On August 24, 2009
Apple: It’s Not the Act, It’s the Cover-Up
After the last 20 or 30 years in the U.S., you’d think that almost everyone had learned one lesson: people get caught in the cover-up. From Richard Nixon’s crew to Bill Clinton, from Enron to Conrad Black’s Hollinger International, what often trips a person or company isn’t what was done so much as how it was covered up. But when push comes to shove, the people in charge panic. That’s what seems to be happening at Apple right now, as its management denies rejecting the iPhone version of the Google Voice app. That alone seems like a pretty bold statement, with Apple’s response to a letter of inquiry by the FTC saying, instead, that it simply hadn’t yet approved Google…
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