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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 09:57:37 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: <utkda1$31l25$2@dont-email.me> References: <xn0ojl66a1q9nyc005@reader443.eternal-september.org> <uti86m$2eitt$1@dont-email.me> <utj90m$2p1gu$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 16:57:37 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="afb6f3d0a26b63519216e2f3c1381674"; logging-data="3200069"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19fZRlk2i6CRShCozQjf0MDWzkWIMt6TvA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:BnvJ/2VOp0B22AhNb27wRyDVwN0= Content-Language: en-CA In-Reply-To: <utj90m$2p1gu$1@dont-email.me> Bytes: 2449 On 2024-03-21 23:38, Joerg Lorenz wrote: > On 21.03.24 22:18, Your Name wrote: >> On 2024-03-21 16:44:07 +0000, badgolferman said: >>> >>> The Justice Department filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Apple >>> (AAPL), alleging that the tech giant illegally maintains its dominance >>> over its iPhone ecosystem by boxing out competing services from other >>> companies. >> <snip> >> >> What utter nonsense. It's not like any other company is any different, >> and apart from a few loud-mouthed morons who want to fill their own >> pockets at Apple's expense, nobody gives a flying crap that you can >> only install iOS apps from teh Apple App Store. >> >> Epic, Google, etc. were whining on about how Apple charges too much in >> fees for their app store, and then has pretty much the same thing for >> developers wanting to use their store ... and why are they charging the >> same? Simply *because* Apple does, so they equal it rather than >> actually trying to compete. Just like every other business segment - >> there is no real "competition" on prices because they all simply match >> each other for the same price. :-\ > > Are you trolling? Things are lot more complicated and much uglier. > Apple's misbehaviour affects a lot of other industries in an unwanted > manner. > > What "misbehaviour" would that be?