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.

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.

  • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
    4·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      7 months ago

      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.

    • pizzaboi@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      What? I use a three gen old iPhone and the Apple Watch I bought this year works just fine.

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    We need to be more proactive in our regulations than just wait for a company to violate antitrust law. Capitalism isn’t good without strong regulations.

    • geemili@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      This headline is wrong. The DOJ is alleging that they are being anticompetitive in the Performance Smartphone market, and further that their anticompetitive behavior affects even the regular smartphone market.

  • GaryCooper@kbin.social
    1·
    4 months ago

    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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  • redeyejedi@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 months ago

    It’s a step in the right direction. But I don’t see anything of substance coming from this. The U.S. has become a Corporate Oligarchy. Apple has enough money and desire to fight this through appeals and lobbying. Pay attention to who they lobby and make sure they are voted out of office. It’s going to take a long time to correct what has happened over the last 20 or so years. It will require slow gradual change.

  • MxM111@kbin.social
    0·
    7 months ago

    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.

    • ki77erb@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      Most of the smartphones sold in US are not iPhones.

      This is just a demonstrably false statement that’s very easily fact checked. I’m not saying that to defend Apple. I’m a Google Pixel guy myself.