Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon...
by kjkjadksj on Friday March 22, 2024 @11:57AM
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There is no hand forcing you to be so overleveraged in apples products.
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Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon...
by eigenspace on Friday March 22, 2024 @12:05PM
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It doesn't matter if someone was forced into buying too many apple products or not. Governments have a responsibility to prevent Apple from abusing their market position and captive audience.
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon...
by kjkjadksj on Friday March 22, 2024 @12:10PM
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If governments truly had that mandate the world would look quite a bit different than today. The same american government allows boeing to be the one american jetliner manufacturer with all the problems that has created, for example.
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone mon...
by eigenspace on Friday March 22, 2024 @12:35PM
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Yes, antitrust laws have been largely ignored in most of the western world for decades now. I'd argue that's a bad thing though, not an argument in favour of continuing to ignore and not apply antitrust laws.