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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
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Subject: Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple
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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?