Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple

On 2024-03-24 23:49:08 +0000, Mickey D said:

On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:48:14 +1300, Your Name wrote:
 

The DOJ's lawsuit is about Apple following the law.

 The DOJ's lawsuit is due to yet more greedy idiots (including Epic)
whining that Apple has a supposed monopoly, which it doesn't (there are
plenty of other options for the whining idiots to choose from). It has
absolutely nothing to do with any actual laws and Apple has NOT broken
any actual laws.

 The court will decide whether or not Apple has broken any laws, not Epic.

Of course the court will decide (baring in mind that "the law is an ass"), after a massive waste of tiem and money, and numerous appeals and counter-appeals, but the whole thing was initiated by the whiners at Epic, Google, Microsoft, etc. ... all of which do exactly the same thing.

It's the same with the morons who whine on about Apple (and Google,
Microsoft, etc.) not paying enough local taxes, depsite the fact that
these companies already do pay all the taxes they are legally meant to.

 Google and Linux and Windows and even Apple's mac all allow apps to be
installed from anywhere the user wants to install those apps from.
 By contrast, the DOJ lawsuit alleges that Apple "illegally maintains its
dominance over the smartphone market by boxing out competing apps".
 The question for the courts is does Apple do exactly that, or not?

That's two entirely separate "issues".
Apple certainly does not "illegally maintains its dominance over the smartphone market by boxing out competing apps" ... there are plenty of other smartphones people can buy.
As for only being able to install apps from Apple's App Store, 99.9% of users couldn't give a flying crap anyway. That's what makes Apple's devices better in the first place, rather than having to put up with all the malware and garbage-quality apps that infest Windows and Android.
Plus it's no different to only being able to buy the "secret recipe" chicken from KFC, or the "secret recipe" drinks from Coca-Cola, among billions of other such examples. Companies having their own closely-guarded products and services  is how businesses work and have done since businesses first began millennia ago.

It's all just greedy braindeads in the local governments who have zero
understanding of anything at all, especially when it comes to tech.

 I'm not going to disagree that the government always wants to tax the
companies and individuals who make the most money - that's always the case.
 In this DOJ suit, the courts will have to decide if the DOJ is correct when
the DOJ claimed "Apple has maintained its power not because of its
superiority, but because of its unlawful exclusionary behavior", or not.

Which is a claim that is complete and utter nonsense.