155

U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 3 months ago by rgb3x3@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

27 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. The tech giant prevented other companies from offering applications that compete with Apple products like its digital wallet, which could diminish the value of the iPhone, and hurts consumers and smaller companies that compete with it, the government said.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social 58 points 3 months ago

God. All I really want is to be able to sideload and app I developed without Apple's approval.

And not bullying kids because of their chat bubble color would be cool, too

[-] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 months ago

The iphone/non-iphone situation is utterly insane to me. I am constantly being punished for not having an iphone, be it texting or airdrop. These things should be standardized and interoperable, not owned commodities by companies. Grrr.

[-] Darkrai@kbin.social 16 points 3 months ago

Stop talking to the type of people that care about what phone you have.

[-] frog@beehaw.org 8 points 3 months ago

So I'm actually going to agree with this, with a caveat, having learned from personal experience - because sometimes we do have to keep talking to these people for work/education/family purposes. When they start arguing about their choice of phone being better, ignore them. But do continue to respond to them about things you need to talk to them about. Or, in short, grey rock the hell out of them.

Method successfully deployed against a guy at university who picked fights about everything, including what phones people had.

[-] renard_roux@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, the John Waters strategy! ❤️

[-] squeakycat@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

It's not that they necessarily care, it's that it's the assumed default. So then I have to respond with "I can't do that, can you upload it here?" it makes me the odd one out making people jump through hoops.

[-] charles@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Some of us don't really have that luxury. For example, I don't choose who I need to communicate with for work purposes.

[-] emptyfish@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

I think side loading is an important point. You can even side load apps on a Mac so Apple is going to have a difficult time arguing this one. It’s fine to not allow it by default and adding the extra steps to enable it.

I’ll admit I am torn on this. Before the iPhone really took off in the US the mobile carriers were in control. Does anyone remember having to pay for GPS and navigation and similar things through Verizon or whoever as add-ons? I do not miss those days, Apple (and Google) have done a lot to improve mobile experience since then.