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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by zhengyi13 on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:41PM (#39784132)
Luckily, we have anti-trust and other forms of law and regulation specifically because assuming markets will alway provide meaningful choices has historically proven a bad assumption.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by hightrix on Thursday March 21, 2024 @08:04PM (#39785931)
In this case, we don't have to assume. There is meaningful choice in which platform you use.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon... by intrasight on Friday March 22, 2024 @12:52AM (#39787579)
We only have to assume that our legal system will do it's job. Personally, I think the government has a weak case. No customers are being harmed by Apple's restrictions and there is certainly no monopoly.
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