I’m an iPhone user.
And I recognize that Apple steals a lot of ideas from Android phones.
Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on mobile phones.
Having lived through the “experience” of owning an Android Phone” some years ago, this is total crap.
Apple doesn’t have a monopoly on mobile phones.
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Samsung has a 20%-25% share of the smart phone market, and there are other makers out there too.
My guess is that this is an act on behalf of the deep state to twist Apple’s arm into giving them more access to everyone’s personal data without warrant. Cooperation they are used to from silicon apple giants like Meta and Alphabet, as well as financial, cellular, and other corporations
I wish they would steal the idea for a dialer update where you can start spelling a name with the numbers buttons and suggestions come up. Right now, you have the contact list, recent calls, and favorites.
Truth!
And I recognize that Apple steals a lot of ideas from Android phones.
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Google stole the interface and interoperability from APPL for its Android phone OS
I wonder what Apple did to piss off the Biden Regime? Of course, it is possible that this is just a “friendly” suit for the purpose of quickly entering into an agreed judgment limiting what President Trump can later do by regulations or executive orders (e.g, give some sort of backdoor protection to Apple’s China suppliers or to mandate Apple hire illegal aliens). Democrats do it all the time to mandate all sorts of restrictions and to funnel tax money to favored groups. Time will tell.
I’ve never owned an Apple phone or tablet and never had a problem finding an Android phone or tablet I preferred. I do wish that there were more alternatives to Apple and Google (Android).
A better case could probably be made that Apple and Google have conspired to jointly monopolize the market (though Google was smart to open up Android to other manufacturers). Of course facts and law don’t matter when Democrats are waging Lawfare, just ask Fanny Willis and Letitia James.
And Vice Verse… starting with the original Android phones back in 2010.
Nor is Apple by any stretch a monopoly. Here is the data as of the fourth quarter 2023, the latest currently available, on iPhone sales worldwide which proves that:
iOS has not reached 25% of the world market, but Merrick Garland and the DOJ has decided that less than one quarter share is a “monopoly”!
Most mobile phones aren’t iPhones, not even close. They may have some monopolistic practices respective to inside their own Play Store - but that is different than a monopoly on what phones people have.
“Apple steals a lot of ideas from Android phones”? Seriously? Are you new to the Smartphone world?