Posted on 05/13/2019 8:20:00 AM PDT by Monrose72
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 against Apple in a case involving its signature electronic marketplace, the App Store, allowing iPhone users to move forward with an antitrust suit against the company. The iPhone users argued that Apple’s 30% commission on sales through the App Store is an unfair use of monopoly power that results in inflated prices passed on to consumers. Apple argued that only app developers, and not users, should be able to bring such a lawsuit. But the Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, rejected that claim.
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Lol.
I actually agree with the decision. I’m not saying the plaintiffs should win with their lawsuit but it’s dumb to say they can’t sue one of the suppliers in the supply chain.
As an app user, I’m grateful for the excellent platform and for the security of knowing that apps in the app store are fairly well vetted to prevent malicious behavior.
As an app developer, 30% feels very greedy to me. By the time Apple gets its cut and the government gets its cut, a developer only makes about 35 cents on the dollar. Maybe even less.
Yes, but see HERE is where we enter The Twilight Zone.
Will the courts reduce the cut of Apple, Inc. That would clearly be legislating/regulating. Will the courts remand it to the States (to legislate) likely but, what law covers the issue?
The actors will find this a disagreeable length of time and ask the courts to legislate (tell Apple what to charge the developers and users.)
The Republic is being held captive by the Black Robe League.
Another posting nazi.
I’m glad it was posted again because I hadn’t seen the earlier one.
Yep.
And given how huge evil Google and its android OS is, it’s not like there isn’t a choice here. If you don’t like Apple’s security and restrictions, buy something else.
I’m sorry but this decision has absolutely no impact on me at all. It certainly does not indicate that Kavanaugh is somehow another Souter or Kennedy or otherwise a sellout. If anything, I’m fine with the left-wing monopoly tech companies being held accountable.
These meaningless cases are nothing compared to what’s coming up on the docket such as the census/citizenship issue.
The 4 liberals plus Kavanaugh were the majority
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This was NOT a good decision IMHO. I don’t know what Kavanaugh’s problem is but I’m beginning to worry a bit about him. Are he and Roberts doing a tag team act — alternating who agrees with the leftists to give them a majority?
Note the implicit recognition that taxes and fees imposed on corporations are simply pass-through charges. I wonder of the liberal justices realize the implications of their opinion.
Though I really DISLIKE siding with the liberals....
On this one, because it’s a Monopoly, they have a point....
It’s a reason we broke up the Telecoms and the Utilities in the years past....
I’m surprised it actually took this long for a lawsuit.
I’m still holding judgment on Justice K. (No pun intended)
Caterpillar gets away with it by making everything specific to Cat
Can’t even buy a non-Cat bolt that will work
>> At at anythime Apple can tell you, “You own a brick.”
Welcome to the world obsolete hardware. Happens all the time, and not just Apple.
Hush.
Let the Freepers who personally oppose the very concept of property ownership grouse for a while.
At any time you can replace your apple device with an android piece of trash from any number of companies.
Kavanaugh is compromised by the hearing drama.
The developers know going in the cost, no one is compelling them to write for Apple devices except they are popular with many consumers. The market has decided the “30%” which has still fed billions to developers in sales across a ten year product history.
You can technically “jailbreak” your iPhone, compromising the security design to load apps from other sources or if you write your own, you’re not paying the 30%.
Who is the arbiter of what cut is fair for Apple to provide the store experience, support, curated experience, etc? In a fiercely competitive smartphone market, the market has found 30% to Apple has been fine for ten years so that should be then end of it.
Forcing Apple to open their devices to competing app stores would be a disaster for security, reliability and antithetical to a compelling reason consumers choose the Apple product over legions of competition from android and other devices.
It’s pretty obvious that you don’t understand the ruling or the legal issues in play here.
https://casetext.com/case/apple-inc-v-pepper-2
This is really about a very technical aspect of anti-trust law.
Prediction: He WON’T talk about Apple for three hours. The story about the lefty social worker who didn’t tip the pizza waiter in NYC and left a $400k check that he returned tick too many boxes for him to ignore.
Monopoly isn’t necessary bad. It’s whether Apple is being unfair. This isn’t a monopoly in smartphones, we’re talking about the app store for the ecosystem of products. For ten years the market has decided that 30% is fine to have the experience Apple offers. Don’t like it, at any time you can switch to Android or something else.
Telecom and utilities didn’t have competition, Apple does. Apple isn’t even the largest provider of smart phones. So the comparison to utilities is poor.
As an Apple ecosystem user, I don’t want my experience to suffer because whiny libs scream monopoly and cry Apple makes too much money. My experience suffers enough for missing the guiding iron fist of Steve Jobs but that’s just my view. I tried Android first and my experience was poor
As I suspected about Kavanaugh. I can’t believe anyone fell for the Hegelian sex accusation fakery against him... a ploy the Elites use (pitting right vs left) to get their RINOBushboy candidate in SCOTUS.
Bingo.
People are free to choose and develop for whatever device they’d like. If people (like some in this thread) think it’s “Apple owning my device” for Apple to only allow App Stores apps, they can say screw you to those terms and buy an Android device. Nothing is stopping them. They’re available all over the place.
And the 70/30 split is quite common. Google Play, Steam, etc. all use that percentage.
“most certainly the worthless RINO closet democrat Kavanaugh”
And here come these idiots again.
SCOTUS members do not 100% side the way you demand on 100% of cases.
When he rules on another the way you ordered him, then you guys seem to vanish into the void for some odd reason.
Protect stupid people from viruses.
Protects older devices from being useful after 3 years.
Protect you from political views they dont want you to see too.
FR’s Apple apologists keep the train moving right along.
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