On what grounds do they sue? You can't talk about hardware you bought?
You won't win a legal fight against Apple unless you have more money than they're willing to spend.
How does this process work, specifically? Does Apple secretly pay judges so that they favor them or what? Otherwise, wouldn't any judge dismiss Apple's claims as ridiculous?
I don’t think it would be a problem in this case though. If Apple tried to do that to Alyssa I think she’d have the community jump to defend her. Perhaps even the EFF would take on her case. Apple would end up damaging their own brand with all the negative press that would generate. All of that on top of the stupidity of preventing people from doing what Apple themselves went out of their way to allow people to do.
This is horrific, and obviously contrary to the concepts of justice and democracy. Why do people put up with this? Can't these behaviors be voted away?
Politicians in USA has the same problem though. You either vote for politicians bought by corporations or your vote is "wasted".
In the EU, EULAS that are either too long or too hard for normal people to read are not enforceable.
Also if you bought it, its yours and you can do whatever you want with it, like resell it (and Apple is being sued for not allowing users to resell AppStore apps..).
Also, the EU is going to ship a right to repair law that will force companies to make sure their products can be repaired after support ends. And that includes software. So any mac that apple sells will need to be fully usable / repairable / etc. just for the case that apple goes out of business.
How is this possible? They force them to provide source and build info? Any software is "repairable" with enough effort, just ask the NSA.
Enough effort here means users should be able to bring their own software on the device.
“ the reproduction of another manufacturer's product following detailed examination of its construction or composition.”