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  • Apple users, developers seek class status in App Store antitrust claims

    applguyapplguy
    The same class action suit should be brought against Sony and Microsoft. The most recent consoles (Xbox Series S and PlayStation digital edition) can only download games from the respective manufacturers store. Both Sony and Microsoft have created their own “monopoly”. Consumers should file a class action suit as the 30% store commission and lack of alternative stores is harming the consumer through higher prices. The cost of games increases year after year with the cost now approaching $70 for a triple A game. The argument that the console is sold at a loss is borders on predatory pricing anti-trust law. 
    watto_cobra

  • Facebook sponsored research paper lambasts Apple's iOS 14.5 privacy

    applguyapplguy
    Reminds my of the John Lydgate quote “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time.”
    watto_cobra

  • Apple now tells users to unpair Apple Watch Series 3 before updating

    applguyapplguy
    I’ve given up on updating the watch. Not always but there have been problems with some updates requiring essentially wiping and restoring which was not a quick process.  
    Dogperson

  • Apple stops online sales of Hermes AirTag, possibly over quality problems

    applguyapplguy
    Finally sold the only 1 they had in stock.
    mainyehcchemengin1byronl

  • Apple asking judge stop iOS, App Store from being labeled 'essential facility'

    applguyapplguy
    dantheman827 said:
    lkrupp said:
    This whole dispute that’s going on about Apple worldwide relies on a convoluted definition of monopoly. How can it be construed that people have no choice in smartphones? The whole world knows by now that buying an iPhone means you knowingly agree to live in the walled garden. You have the choice not to buy an iPhone if you don't like that. To buy an iPhone and THEN start to bitch about the ‘monopoly’ of the walled garden seems irrational and petty. Then there’s fact that iOS is a minority mobile operating system worldwide. Even in the U.S. it’s market share is below 50%.

    I personally reject the idea that Apple is a monopoly unto itself and I hope judges and governments come around to that opinion.
    iOS has around 60% in the US last I checked.
    You're both correct.
    iOS smartphone US market share is around 50%
    iOS tablet and smartphone US market share is around 60%
    FileMakerFellerwatto_cobra