Antitrust Lawyer Breaks Down DOJ’s Apple Lawsuit | WSJ

Read more about the monopoly case pitting the DOJ against Apple’s antitrust winning streak: on.wsj.com/3JkLT4y

"Raise prices above a competitive level, and to exclude competition" -- Hmm almost like the health care and prescription drug system...

I own an independent repair shop. If a customer want's an aftermarket display or battery then a message will pop up saying, "Cannot verify if an original part is used, please contact apple". This message scares off customers and then they want on OEM apple part. I can buy an apple part from apple for 2 or 3X the cost of an aftermarket. I then have to contact apple and give them a serial number and order number for apple to serialize the parts to the logic board. Apple has agreed to right to repair however they have still cornered the billion dollar repair industry with this software serialization of parts. Apple also does this with the new macbooks. There have been times when an update has been released and I see many ipads/iphones/macbooks come into my shop. I once had over 13 ipads come in in one week after an update (all ipads where of the number series & 2-3 yrs old). All ipads had bad batteries. Coincidence? I think not. Apple Sux and their corporate values have gone astray.

They also monopolized how they repair their products

I'm surprised that neither the EU nor the DOJ did something about apple's xcode(which is mac exclusive) requirement to publish apps to iOS, MacOS watchOS etc.

Sounds like Apple didn't give the right comgressmen their heads up stock information... Bc why else would they be doing this?

"Just buy your mom an iPhone"

Apple, "We don't allow our devices to work on other OS." "We don't allow others companies' smartwatches, and other accessories to work properly." "We don't allow apps to use 3rd party payment methods." "We don't allow apps to even mention that user can subscribe on app website." "We don't allow 3rd party app stores in our OS" "We don't allow sideloading" "We make almost impossible to leave our walled garden." Also Apple "We are not a monopoly."

But they don’t go after the real estate monopolies

When a company is broken up, the owner(s) of the broken up company just become the owner(s) of the newly "freed" company/companies. When Standard Oil was broken up, the "freed" companies merged into smaller Standard Oils so the only thing that changed was that we went from one company to a handful of companies owned by the same people.

I hope they fix ram and disk upgrade prices. Back when you could add ram to the imac I could tolerate those prices, but now there is no way to upgrade machine later. Everything is soldered…

The purchase of competitor companies in the beginnings of their existence and then having their products/services completely disappear, is the most common method of eliminating the competition; this should be illegal, the cost of this practice is charged to the consumers.

building seamless integration is fine. but when you proactively control integration with other protocols (RCS), it is sure monopoly!

That’s like saying stores at Disneyland is an illegal monopoly

It doesn’t matter, if they are found guilty it’s a slap on the wrist and they will eventually have a workaround. It’s all theater to make it look like they’re doing something… probably a small fine and they will not admit any guilt

there is no dennying that apple has a manopoly on :- repairing apple devices. - only autheriesed repairers can obtain parts and to be autheriesed you have to agree to replace expensive sections of devices rather small repairs like a single faulty cable/chip making repairs uneconomical. people able to carry out these repairs like this have no access to parts unless they agree not to carry out these repairs. iphone app distribution - dictates what apps can/cant be released to users - cannot even change the deffault apps like maps, browser, etc from apples dictated choice

And the fact that you just cannot use old devices anymore while they should be fine to use with the old software

Now do this with food companies🤷🏼‍♂️

So why isnt the clayton antitrust act applied here too?

"This lawsuit could cost Apple millions of dollars" I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope that there almost $400 billion in revenue can with stand this massive cost :(