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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by skeaker on Thursday March 21, 2024 @01:52PM (#39782009)
Huh? It sounds more like they deliberately broke everyone's devices except their own so you either have to pay them more to continue using your existing headset with an adapter, or if you have a bluetooth headset you're just shit out of luck unless you buy an Apple headset. How is that not anticompetitive?
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by shuckles on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:20PM (#39782367)
No actually any iPhone with a headphone jack continued to have a functioning headphone jack. And competitors marketed their phones with headphone jacks for a year and ended up also abandoning that feature.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by harkinian on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:26PM (#39782461)
It's not feasible to use an old iPhone forever, I tried. If the required app updates don't get you, the carrier will.

The big competitors like Samsung removed the jack too once they started selling their own wireless earbuds. They realized they could use Apple's strategy too.

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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by shuckles on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:35PM (#39782590)
Basically every smartphone vendor removed the headphone jack. So you’re saying Apple is a monopoly because they have good ideas everyone else copies?
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by harkinian on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:11PM (#39783056)
The others who did this are also trying to fleece their users. There are loyal Samsung users too, don't ask me why.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by skeaker on Thursday March 21, 2024 @03:46PM (#39783497)
No? Who said that? Wrong on every count, especially the word "good" to refer to removing the headphone jack.
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