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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Apple knows how to take people to court. Ask anyone involved with browser choice or right-to-repair. It rolled over for DHS and gave Dear Leader a golden turd because it *wants things*; namely to protect the avenues of control over APIs (the App Store monopoly) that it taxes so heavily. And if lending that control to authoritarians for a bit is the price, so be it.

It's all part of the playbook, which is anti-democratic in practice, if not theory:

https://infrequently.org/2025/09/apples-antitrust-playbook/