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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
@owa They *could* have gone narrow, but they are going deep and wide. The evidence of Apple's bad behaviour is gobsmacking.
This is gonna come down to market definition (like most antitrust cases) and specific fact patterns. Helpfully to the DOJ's case, Apple have been *such* shitheads to *so many* regulators and competitors that they've basically dared DOJ to act. And that dare has been accepted.
DOJ repeatedly points out Apple's pattern of malicious compliance:
Attachments:
- DOJ vs. Apple, page 48, 'graf 123: "123. In addition, when one road is closed to Apple, Apple has demonstrated its ability to find new roads to the same or worse ends. For example, Apple was recently ordered to stop blocking link-outs by third parties to their websites where users could buy the third party’s product cheaper. In response, Apple reportedly allowed link-outs to websites but now charges for purchases made on the web even if they are not an immediate result of a click from a link in a native iPhone app. " (remote)
