The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
  • Optional
    36•1 year ago

    Frankly I was hoping they’d go after Ford for their unconscionable monopoly on the production of Mustangs.

    Free the Pony!

    • @[email protected]
      5•1 year ago

      Isn’t that the whole point of these antitrust cases?

      Company makes a product that no one else makes. People like it and buy it. Product becomes popular. Company makes money. (That’s the reason for being in business, isn’t it?). Suddenly someone notices that the product, which no one else makes, has earned a whole lot of money for the company.

      ThAt’s nOt fAiR, tHeY’Re tOo pOpUlAr, No oNe eLsE CaN CoMpEtE, wE NeEd tO BrEaK Up tHe cOmPaNy sO We cAn gRaB A SlIcE Of tHeIr pIe!

      • @[email protected]
        8•1 year ago

        That’s not what this is about. It’s about Apple controlling it so heavily, that nobody can compete. Do you see any other Tap n Pay apps other than Apple Pay, for example? Why not? Because Apple are stifling competitors, which is illegal.

        • JackGreenEarthEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          There’s also Google and Samsung pay, to be fair, but it’s not open to wider competition besides the biggest brands.

      • OtterEnglish
        14•1 year ago

        Yea the specific issue is

        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. The tech giant prevented other companies from offering applications that compete with Apple products like its digital wallet, which could diminish the value of the iPhone, and hurts consumers and smaller companies that compete with it, the government said.

        so that’s a good thing :)

          • OtterEnglish
            5•1 year ago

            The quality isn’t really the issue, it’s when the company

            • prevents competing apps from being installed
            • prevents devices from other manufacturers from using your apps (or intentionally degrading services on other devices)
            • making it hard to use files/media outside the proprietary apps (ex. iTunes in the past, and maybe still now)

            This issue isn’t limited to Apple, but Apple is the well known example for locking people into an ecosystem whether they like it or not

            • @[email protected]
              1•1 year ago

              Do you have an example of them rejecting a quality product from being used in their phones?

              • @[email protected]English
                3•1 year ago

                You were already provided with examples in this comment thread:

                Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

                • @[email protected]
                  1•1 year ago

                  Each developer will have to be authorized by Apple to switch engines “after meeting specific criteria and committing to a number of ongoing privacy and security mitigations,”

                  Now they can babysit other browsers and make sure they’re secure too, ig. Might as well throw that responsibility on the trillion dollar company. At least the browsers will end up more secure once the apple security team audits them.

          • @[email protected]
            14•1 year ago

            “We need you to stop making a good product forcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it.” Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation

              • @[email protected]English
                2•1 year ago

                Is there an answer to that question that would make these practices reasonable? (while also being plausibly true)

                  • @[email protected]English
                    4•1 year ago

                    In what way is a device you’ve purchase and paired with your phone, requesting that the phone it’s paired to make a noise; a security flaw/issue?

                  • OtterEnglish
                    3•1 year ago

                    How would that actually help security?

                  • OtterEnglish
                    4•1 year ago

                    Not really, pretty much every brand has had security issues and they all patch them fairly quickly

    • Neuromancer
      12•1 year ago

      I have no issues with Apple controlling the Iphone. That’s why I buy it. If I didn’t like it I could buy an android phone.