Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple

On 2024-03-25 07:45:53 +0000, Jan K. said:

W Mon, 25 Mar 2024 02:45:15 -0400, Anonymous napisal:
 

U.S. anti-trust laws exist to protect consumers.  Not competitors.

 I'm not a lawyer, but the government can claim that Apple is engaging
in conspiracy to restrain trade and commerce, which is broadly illegal
and does not require Apple to actually be a monopoly.

 Almost nobody believes Apple, just like almost nobody believes Trump, when
they both loudly claim that the courts are out to get them for no reason.
 Everyone sensible has always known exactly why Apple excludes competition
from their app store,

Wrong. Anyone can use the App Store to sell their products. The problem is the greedy scum at Epic, etc. simply don't want to pay to do so - they want Apple to do the hosting, prmotion, etc. for free.

especially since nobody else does this but Apple.

Wrong. Every other app store out there is exactly the same. Even Epic's own app store hypocritically charges to sell apps on there.

The question therefore, will be left to the courts to decide Apple's fate
just as the courts are currently left to decide Trump's fate in many cases.

And if the morons in the courts decide against Apple, you can kiss goodbye to every big business company ever bothering to do anything again.   :-\

And forget suing;
Tim Cook himself can be arrested and tried criminally for this if the
government ever decided to actually enforce the law.

 Tim Cook recently settled a half billion dollar lawsuit for lying to
investors, where Apple's sordid reputation for lying is well founded.
 Given Apple has been caught in so many lies recently, what gives you so
much confidence that Apple is finally coming clean by telling the truth?

Only braindead morons, anti-Apple nutters, conpiracy loonies, and trolls believe there have been any "lies" or "laws broken".