The argument is that they cheated by claiming the profits from the sale of the devices months ago and didn't actually deliver the capability until now.
Granted, that is pretty weak but it is similar to what Enron was doing (claiming profits on deals months or years before they actually were supposed to return money) that noone wants to get the SEC pissed off again. On 2/4/07, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 07:42 PM 02/02/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: >Supposedly it is related to the Sarbanes-Oxley law passed to help >prevent future Enrons. Under SOX, a company cannot claim profits from >something before they sell it. Apple sold the devices, counted them >as profits, then is enabling more features later on. But if they already charged for the item, why not just give the update away for free? NVidia has sometimes doubled performance with free driver upgrades. T
-- Brian
