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.
  • 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 :)

      • @[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

              • OtterEnglish
                4•1 year ago

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

                • @[email protected]
                  1•1 year ago

                  Thats not true. There are still phones out there being actively used that have been end of life for years now. There is no way to corral those insecure devices.

                  • OtterEnglish
                    4•1 year ago

                    I’d have to review exactly how long each brand releases updates for, especially because they’ve all been one upping each other recently. However there’s nothing specific to Apple’s anticompetitive behavior that relates to how long they release updates for.

                    Ideally they’d all provide support for longer

          • @[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)

              • OtterEnglish
                3•1 year ago

                How would that actually help security?

              • @[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?

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

                    Are you high?

                    Tracking?

                    Explain to me how you would perform any sort of tracking via a secured communication between two devices: ‘hey phone, can you beep once’ ‘sure’ beep.

      • 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]
              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]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