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.

  • Wrench@lemmy.world
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    9 个月前

    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.

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      9 个月前

      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.

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        9 个月前

        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.

        • Wrench@lemmy.world
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          9 个月前

          And that tells me everything I need to know about your opinions. Horray for the block feature

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            9 个月前

            Thanks for being my first, I guess

        • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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          9 个月前

          green bubble and how their parents won’t get them an iPhone.

          Tbh I agree with a lot of what you’re saying, but this take is embarrassing and doesn’t even make sense in the modern day. You realize plenty of Androids are the same price, if not more expensive, than iPhones right? What year do you think it is?

    • horsey@lemm.ee
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      9 个月前

      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.