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.

  • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    153·
    8 months ago

    Boo fucking hoo, android has done it for years and is fine. Apple doesn’t want to do it because if they don’t they can charge as much as they want for things because you can only get it from them. If they put half as much into innovation as they do into walling everything off they might actually have new ideas instead of the exact same phone with minor hardware and software upgrades that makes it the exact same phone but with a heftier price tag each subsequent generation.

    • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      8 months ago

      To be fair, the unwalled garden of Android hasn’t really come back with anything compelling in a decade, either. Just iterative hardware improvements.

      Which is fine. The space has matured. There will be other frontiers.

      But at least this might result in a decrease of friction between users with different platforms.

      • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        8 months ago

        I mean, I’m using the fold 3 which I am really liking and is definitely something new. But it is true more could be being done.

    • ShoutedEnglish
      35·
      8 months ago

      You don’t need to buy an iPhone, and if you don’t have one then this doesn’t affect you and you’re baby raging about nothing. If you do have one and are still mad, then perhaps evaluate how little self control you have over your purchases.

      • Holyginz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        83·
        8 months ago

        Lol, try and lecture all you want little troll, you are just making yourself look like even more of a tool and a child. I couldn’t care less either way what your opinion is because you have literally no idea what anyone else’s circumstances are and you think you are better. Go study more and do a little more growing up next time you think you have any leg to stand on in judging what others situations are.