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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[+] Shouted -8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Shouted -3 points 8 months ago

Thanks for being my first, I guess

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 months ago

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.