The lawsuit seeks to upend a major part of Apple’s business.

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

  • Shouted@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    People don’t need to use an iPhone. A symptom of our declining society is expecting people or businesses to accommodate your personal interests instead of you making an adult decision.

    • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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      8 months ago

      A symptom of our declining society is expecting people or businesses to accommodate your personal interests instead of you making an adult decision.

      A symptom of your declining society is expecting that the rules in place could be ignored.

      It is true, nobody is forced to buy an iPhone but this not means that Apple could play in the game with a different set of rules from everyone else.

      • Shouted@programming.devEnglish
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        8 months ago

        What existing rules? The rules designed for 19th/20th century oil companies that don’t apply to modern tech companies?

        New rules are being written.

        Apple could play in the game with a different set of rules

        They’re playing a different game because they’re the ones who built the ballpark they’re playing in. Don’t like the game? Don’t go to the ballpark.

        It’s so exhausting how you people simply can’t accept “don’t buy Apple” and leave it alone.

    • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Man, can you fanboy any harder?

      Apple has some aggressive “in-club” style marketing and exclusivity practices.

      iMessage intentionally massively degrades user experience when a non-iMessage user is in the chat, to encourage their iPhone users to harass their friends into getting an iPhone too.

      The cruelty is the point. They want their users to ostracize their friends into converting friends and family to their platform.

      • horsey@lemm.eeEnglish
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        8 months ago

        How is “cruelty the point” while you’re saying that expanding their market share is the point? That would make cruelty a means to an end, not an end itself.

      • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I hate to say it man, but you are talking to a brick wall. That don’t understand, and more importantly they don’t want to understand.

        • Shouted@programming.devEnglish
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          8 months ago

          And I’m speaking to a bunch of incel teenagers who are baby raging about a green bubble and how their parents won’t get them an iPhone.

          That’s literally an argument in the DoJ’s case, btw. A case led by incels.