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Call me a cynic, but the more these aholes call for a retraction the more I feel the story has legs. Even if it isn't true it's very plausibility is what scares them shitless.

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So how should have Apple and Amazon acted if they were indeed truly innocent? Their behavior seems to be very consistent with what they are saying.

Maybe let's let the justice system figure things out?

Is the justice system involved in any way at this point? Or are you suggesting that Apple and Amazon should sue for libel or something like that?

that's interesting, I didn't consider the possibility the government would start this story to possibly justify searching tech premises...

The main issue is that most of their stuff is manufactured in China, they see themselves taking a huge hit in profitability if the US all the sudden forced them to only do stuff in the US because of security.

Yup. Their entire business success, their 1 trillion dolar story, all their "shareholder value" can be summed up by:

"we don't build anything, the Chinese build it for us".

Time to pay the piper.

You don't need to coin a phrase - they laser-etch this split right onto the product: https://i.imgur.com/lHMIz5N.jpg

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