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As a former Apple fanboy and current iPhone user, even I think it’s about time that the US joined the rest of the world in reining in abusive tech monopolies. (Financial and commercial monopolies, too, but that’s a different post.)
My breaking point came when I tried to buy an Apple Watch a couple of years ago. It couldn’t even be activated without a Mac or an iPhone that was less than a year old. That’s when I gave up.
They need to be reigned in, but this isn't gonna do it. The DOJ is arguing stupid shit and shit that isn't accurate. What we need is regulation, not shitty attempts at weak lawsuits. DOJ even refers to Apple's plan to allow alternative stores in Europe as though that was won through a lawsuit. No, dummies. It was legislation.
I don’t disagree that legislation might be preferable, although even that would still have to be filtered through the courts for interpretation. But we all know that getting this — indeed any — legislation out of Washington isn’t possible. So suits based on existing law is the next best thing.
What? I use a three gen old iPhone and the Apple Watch I bought this year works just fine.
Then something has changed.
The government even has the right to ask for a breakup of the Silicon Valley icon.
Into what? I'd be interested in that. Really depends on the granularity of the break up. If it's just iPhone company + mac company + smartwatch company + chip company + ... , then it'll still have the iPhone as it's core money maker. Breaking it up into a payment processor, app store, and other stuff to make the iPhone a more open device, maybe that'd help.
In any case, about time the US actually steps into the ring.
Not gonna happen. There is enough competition on the market for Apple to prove that they are not a monopoly. Most of the smartphones sold in US are not iPhones. It is like accusing BMW, that they sell their cars only with their part and their software.
If you read the article, the lawsuit is more about vendor lock-in rather than lack of competition.
For one to use anti monopoly law, being monopoly is kind of important. If you are trying to lock in vendor while NOT being a (near) monopoly - it is not illegal per that law. There might be other regulations, that makes it illegal though, I am not a layer to know this fully. I am just conveying somebody else’s analysis who is a lawyer.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The federal government’s aggressive crackdown on Big Tech expanded on Thursday to include an antitrust lawsuit by the Justice Department against Apple, one of the world’s best-known and most valuable companies.
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device.
By tightly controlling the user experience on iPhones and other devices, Apple has created what critics call an uneven playing field, where it grants its own products and services access to core features that it denies rivals.
The lawsuit asks the court to stop Apple from engaging in current practices, including blocking cloud-streaming apps, undermining messaging across smartphone operating systems and preventing the creation of digital wallet alternatives.
In Europe, regulators recently punished Apple for preventing music streaming competitors from communicating with users about promotions and options to upgrade their subscriptions, levying a 1.8 billion-euro fine.
The government’s complaint uses similar arguments to the claims it made against Microsoft decades ago, in a seminal lawsuit that argued the company was tying its web browser to the Windows operating system, said Colin Kass, an antitrust lawyer at Proskauer Rose.
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I think it will never going to happen.
They are not alone in the market, and they are certainly not monopolists.
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