The lawsuit seeks to upend a major part of Apple’s business.

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.

  • captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.orgEnglish
    726·
    8 months ago

    Is this really the biggest problem in the US right now? Can the justice department maybe spend some time on gun violence, climate denial, misinformation, dark money in politics…. Like 1000 other things that are literally killing people before we worry about this? Or is this just because it’s an election year and they think it will be popular…

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      254·
      8 months ago

      When your family does spring cleaning, does the entire family all focus on each specific thing individually, or are you capable of collectively handling multiple things at the same time?

      • dezmd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        8 months ago

        Not necessarily the best example, if you split the work up too much, you can end up with a bunch of unfinished projects, when everyone works together on specific items together you are more likely to get specific things done quickly and have them be more fully ‘completed.’

        Source: Actually have a family, actually do spring cleaning.

        • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          Well, in the case of the DOJ the “individual family member” is a group of people. I was just pointing out that one thing being done doesn’t mean other things are not also being done.