The US Government accuses the technology company of creating a monopoly on smartphones. They accuse it of stifling competition and imposing high costs on buyers.
He United States Department of Justice sued Apple for illegally maintaining a monopoly on its iPhones. In the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in New Jerseythey accuse the technology company of stifle competition and impose high costs to customers.
The attorney general of USA, Merrick Garlandexplained in a press conference that “if the situation does not change, Apple will only continue strengthening its monopoly on smartphones“.
The US lawsuit against Apple
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The lawsuit, which was upheld by Garland’s department and attorneys general from 16 states, alleged that “Apple has entrenched a monopoly not by improving its own products, but by making those of others worse”. In this way, the first antitrust action is carried out against the company founded by Steve Jobs since Joe Biden He is president.
Speaking to CNN, Garland maintains that anyone with an iPhone will have seen a green text message or received a tiny or grainy video. In this sense, he explains that “Apple’s anticompetitive conduct also includes making it difficult for iPhone users to message with users of non-Apple products“.
Along these same lines, it ensures that the company itself decreases the functionality of your own messaging app and manages to reduce the functionality of third-party messaging applications.
“For example, if an iPhone user sends a message to a non-iPhone user via Apple Messages, the text appears not only as a green bubble, but incorporates a limited functionality”, he maintains. He adds: “The conversation is not encrypted. Videos appear pixelated and grainy, and users cannot edit messages or see typing indicators.”
In this way, as a result, iPhone users perceive phones from other brands as lower quality because the messaging experience with friends and family who do not have Apple brand cell phones is worse.
Apple’s response to the US lawsuit
The company has already responded to the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against it and considered that It could set a dangerous precedent for government intervention in the United States.
If successful, this lawsuit could “set a dangerous precedent, giving the government power to strongly influence the design of the technology that people use“the group said in a statement.
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