Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple

Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-03-21 16:44:07 +0000, badgolferman said:

 
The Justice Department filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Apple
(AAPL), alleging that the tech giant illegally maintains its dominance
over its iPhone ecosystem by boxing out competing services from other
companies.

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What utter nonsense. It's not like any other company is any different,
and apart from a few loud-mouthed morons who want to fill their own
pockets at Apple's expense, nobody gives a flying crap that you can
only install iOS apps from teh Apple App Store.
 
Epic, Google, etc. were whining on about how Apple charges too much in
fees for their app store, and then has pretty much the same thing for
developers wanting to use their store ... and why are they charging the
same? Simply *because* Apple does, so they equal it rather than
actually trying to compete. Just like every other business segment -
there is no real "competition" on prices because they all simply match
each other for the same price.  :-\
 
 

Is it possible that you may be wrong about this? Apple has been getting
sued by several governments to change their anti-competitive practices and
they have had to capitulate over and over again. Just cutting a check to be
rid of the lawsuit isn’t working anymore and now Apple is facing some
serious consequences which will probably force them to break up or change
their business model drastically. You can’t keep sticking your fingers in
your ears and going LaLaLaLa every time Apple gets accused of breaking
legal and business standards. Some of the accusations must be true if Apple
can’t fight them.