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This should at the very least have a 2021 - ignoring the fact that even in 2021 it was referencing information from a trial that happened in 2015.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/apple-google-others-...

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And the email itself was from 2007

I mean it's pretty obvious that it is not happening today - as Jobs has been dead for over a decade and Schmidt has no official link to Google or Alphabet since 2020.

And yet seemingly every US company conducted layoffs of similar scales at nearly the same time with the same specious reasoning given each time just last year.

It doesn't take collusion for that. Big corps are always ready for layoffs, and if someone else does it first, it's a good time to see if you should, too.

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