U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
U.S. Moves Closer to Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple
Justice Department officials are in the late stages of investigating the iPhone maker, focusing on how Apple has used its other products and services to defend against threats to its core business.
More antitrust cases against more giganto companies please.
My conspiracy theory is Biden goes after Ticketmaster in say September/October just in time for the election...
Ticketmaster is awful, but there are many oligopolies/oligarchies that would materially make peoples' lives better if they were taken care of first, in no particular order:
Amazon
Facebook/Meta
Google/Alphabet
Microsoft
Bayer
Phizer
Merck
3M
CVS
UnitedHealth
Healthcare Service Corp
Centene
Johnson and Johnson
SC Johnson
Unilever
Procter and Gamble
Kraft
DuPont
Honeywell
Nestle
Mars
Rail Companies
Auto Industry
Barrilla
GE
Boeing
Ratheon
Northrop Grumman
Blackstone
Ha. I just came here to post this too. It’s an interesting angle they’re taking by attacking the way Apple’s ecosystem works better together, naturally locking consumers in. I’m an Apple sucker myself but frankly the Apple-exclusive features (Siri, Handoff, iMessage, Airplay) are, at best, gimmicks that would be much better if they had broader compatibility.
The thing is, there are versions of all of these (Cast, any number of messaging clients) that have broader compatibility already. They just tend to be locked out of Apple's ecosystem and Apple has its own versions that lock everyone else out of there's.
These systems would be so much more friendly for the consumer if everyone just worked together but this insistence on keeping these things siloed just makes it worse for literally everyone.
Wanna share your video on the TV at my house? Oh you have an iPhone? Oh, Yeah your gallery can't Cast. I want to share a video at yours? Oh, you have an Apple TV so I can't Cast to it and Airplay doesn't exist in my gallery or OS.
This only hurts consumers. And the only people it's helping is the manufacturers selling you Google TV/AppleTV via suckers that buy both.
Meh. Airplay is like CarPlay. Modern TVs support both Android and iOS casting. Just like most modern cars support both Android Auto and CarPlay.
There are apps you can get for devices that allow you to AirPlay to them as well if they don’t already support it. I got one to AirPlay to my Xbox for example.
I wouldn’t mind an open standard for casting. But both Google Cast and Airplay are currently proprietary. Maybe something will come out of the Matter standards board that everyone can adopt.
I can avoid using Apple products. What I CAN'T avoid is the ISP oligopoly.
Break up the internet (lack of) service providers.
Porque no los dos?
About fuckin time.
I like Apple. Their UIs are comfortable, their OSes are reliable, their hardware is top-notch, and they design better SDKs than 99% of the world.
But their greed has completely eradicated the “damn the man” ethos that they espoused in the early iWork days. “Microsoft wants to lock you in. You gonna let them?” Well now who’s the jailer?
the problem with the hippies is they had no theory, so they just ended reproducing the patterns that led us to this mass in the first place
Good. File it.
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They're not even an American company anymore!
Someone must have forgot to include the appropriate "political donations" line item in the Apple 2024 budget.
“dominance of the iPhone”
- Android market share is 75% of all phones and tablets.
Worldwide figures aren't relevant to US anti-trust cases; iPhones account for over half of the US market, their closest competitor, Samsung, is around a quarter, and everyone else combined is even less than that.
https://cirpapple.substack.com/p/apple-smartphone-market-share-in
“Despite the popular perception that Apple dominates the US smartphone market, iOS actually has a minority share of US smartphone buyers... Data for the most recent annual period (ending with the September 2023 quarter) indicates iOS captured 39% of smartphone sales”
the turn tables
If you like reading about anti-trust, I highly recommend BIG by Matt Stoller. Very well thought out journalism and he's been influential.
You either go out of business early or live long enough to become the monopoly.
didn't the monopoly man die in prison?
as well as how Apple locks competitors out of its iMessage service
I don't give a shit about this. Apple shouldn't be forced to allow competitors to use their servers.
However, they should be required to allow other apps to be used for SMS. But they're like 10 years too late on that one.
Apple has already agreed to RCS but if it were me I would require feature parity with iMessage over RCS.
No one will do that and Apple's RCS implementation will be bare-bones, and they'll probably go out of their way to make it nearly as bad as SMS, because that's what they do.
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A lot of people are saying Apple kicking Beeper off their servers is or should be an anti-trust violation.