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  • How third-party App Stores will look to users in the EU

    sdw2001sdw2001
    And if it looks like that, they’re going to be sued. The irony is delicious.
    tmaywatto_cobra

  • US DOJ will finally sue Apple after years of antitrust investigation

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    VictorMortimer said:
    About time.  Apple has been illegally monopolizing app distribution on iDevices for well over a decade now.  It's time for the nonsense to stop.

    I should be able to install any software of MY choosing on MY iPhone, without interference from Apple.

    I really hope DoJ doesn't cave and settle.  Apple needs to allow normal software installation, without an app store.
    Put simply, you have no idea what you’re talking about. Monopolies are not illegal… *Illegal* monopolies are illegal. So far, no one has been able to prove that Apple has a illegal monopoly. They have one on iPhones to be sure. But the iPhone is not a market per se.  

    The problem with any antitrust case related to the anti-steering provisions is that customers have a choice to buy an Android phone from literally dozens of other manufacturers. The argument you’re making is one that’s been made repeatedly, but it’s not  an legal argument. If you want the ability to install anything you want, by Android. or jailbreak your phone.   

    If Apple had 90% of the market and yet was also the gatekeeper of the App Store, that would be another matter. But they don’t 90%. They don’t even have 50%. Their latest estimated US smartphone market share is 39%.  

    You’d also do well to understand the history of tech monopolies a little bit. Microsoft unquestionably had an illegal monopoly with Windows. They abused their market position by pushing out other browsers to the exclusivity of Internet explorer. They pressured all PC makers to include only Windows. They were 90% of the market, perhaps more. Even with that, the DOJ ended up essentially folding.  Ultimately, this is going nowhere.  

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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

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    This is not a game that Epic is going to win. They can call it malicious compliance all they want. Apple is playing for keeps and they have all the power. They just pick and choose whatever is going to cost them less money, and protect their business, the most. If they thought buying Epic outright would do that, they would. But getting Apple, which is basically the world’s biggest company, to do something it doesn’t want to do is going to be very difficult.  Short of the federal government declaring them an illegal monopoly and ordering them to be broken up, you’re not going to do it.  The U.S. government is the only force on Earth that has the resources (financial, regulatory, and force) to make Apple to do anything.  
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  • 'Verifiably untrustworthy' Epic Games iOS app store plans in EU killed by Apple

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    caladanian said:
    What has trust to do with it? Either you follow the rules within the laws or not. You can’t distrust preventively without them making a mistake with their new developer account – after all I can understand. 
    Sure they can. They just did.
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  • Apple Podcasts bug prevents listeners from enjoying new episodes

    sdw2001sdw2001
    Haven’t experience this, but I do experience 30 to 45 second repeats on episodes that have not been fully downloaded.  It’s maddening.  

    robin huber