Nobody is forcing anybody to buy an Apple phone.
Exactly. This is absurd.
I can buy an Android and other things.
And, oh boy! - look who’s leading the way?!
“Consumers should not have to pay higher prices because companies violate the antitrust laws,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement.
Does any rational human being think Mary Garland cares about consumers?
Anyone cheering this on is a statist.
Not necessarily true. Facetime is increasingly being used in business and you cant get it on Android. It is essentially boxing out the competition.
There was a term in the way-back machine called a “Killer App”. It denoted an application that drove everyone to a specific technology. The acceptance of PCs into the workplace was driven by email, the original Killer App.
Texting was a Killer App that originally drove adoption of beepers, beepers in turn caused phone manufacturers to include texting on phones to drive out beepers.
Social media, and specifically Facebook drove the acceptance of Smartphones with children. Facebook became the behemoth they are because they were a Killer App.
Google was a Killer App that drove people away from traditional research methods to looking online.
And the list goes on. If you monopolize a killer app on a specific platform, then that is still grounds for anti-trust.