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From: Mickey D <mickeydavis078XX@ptd.net>
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Subject: Re: Justice Department files antitrust suit against Apple
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:49:08 -0400
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On Mon, 25 Mar 2024 11:48:14 +1300, Your Name wrote:

>> The DOJ's lawsuit is about Apple following the law.
> 
> The DOJ's lawsuit is due to yet more greedy idiots (including Epic) 
> whining that Apple has a supposed monopoly, which it doesn't (there are 
> plenty of other options for the whining idiots to choose from). It has 
> absolutely nothing to do with any actual laws and Apple has NOT broken 
> any actual laws.

The court will decide whether or not Apple has broken any laws, not Epic.
 
> It's the same with the morons who whine on about Apple (and Google, 
> Microsoft, etc.) not paying enough local taxes, depsite the fact that 
> these companies already do pay all the taxes they are legally meant to.

Google and Linux and Windows and even Apple's mac all allow apps to be
installed from anywhere the user wants to install those apps from.

By contrast, the DOJ lawsuit alleges that Apple "illegally maintains its
dominance over the smartphone market by boxing out competing apps".

The question for the courts is does Apple do exactly that, or not?
 
> It's all just greedy braindeads in the local governments who have zero 
> understanding of anything at all, especially when it comes to tech.

I'm not going to disagree that the government always wants to tax the
companies and individuals who make the most money - that's always the case.

In this DOJ suit, the courts will have to decide if the DOJ is correct when
the DOJ claimed "Apple has maintained its power not because of its
superiority, but because of its unlawful exclusionary behavior", or not.