Apple Facing Imminent U.S. Antitrust Lawsuit
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The United States Justice Department is preparing to sue Apple for violating antitrust law as soon as Thursday, reports Bloomberg. The lawsuit will...
  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Fucking FINALLY

    Some of what the DoJ has looked into:

    How the Apple Watch works better with iPhone than other smart watches do.

    How Apple locks competitors out of iMessage.

    How Apple blocks financial firms from offering tap-to-pay services similar to Apple Pay.

    Whether Apple favors its own apps and services over those provided by third-party developers.

    How Apple has blocked cloud gaming apps from the App Store.

    How Apple restricts the ‌‌iPhone‌‌’s location services from devices that compete with AirTag.

    How App Tracking Transparency impacted the collection of advertising data.

    In-app purchase fees collected by Apple.

    Please stop, I can only get so erect!

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      None of those include the App Store/sideloading, though, or blocking root access on all devices other than macOS, which is unfortunate.

      It’s a start, though.

      • cm0002@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        blocking root access on all devices other than macOS,

        Hopefully, more is done as far as root access. Side loading is a matter of when not if, but root is far more of a gray area IMO.

        And MacOS isn’t safe btw, they’ve been neutering sudo on MacOS for the past few versions now and I suspect it’s to prepare it and people for a future “walled garden desktop OS”.

        • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I think they are going to shift people to iPads where it’s already locked down. People already accept a locked down iPad, but not a locked down Mac. Maybe it’s why the Mac’s are so expensive compared to the air.

    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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      8 months ago

      “how apple tracking transparency impacted the collection of advertising data”

      Isn’t that a good thing?

      • cm0002@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        In general yes, but it can still serve as a red flag since any company being able to affect an entire half of another industry they’re not even involved in probably isn’t a great sign