WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four more U.S. states on Tuesday joined the Justice Department's lawsuit against Apple Inc alleging the iPhone maker is monopolizing smartphone markets, the department said in a statement. The four states are Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada and Washington, the Justice Department said. The lawsuit alleges that Apple uses its market power to get more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses and merchants.
  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    5 months ago

    There’s lots of stuff like enforcing WebKit for browsers, iCloud for background cloud syncing, subscription disadvantages (end trial for competitor = end of period, end trial for Apple = now), giving their 1st party native apps advantageous functionality competitors can’t (yet), etc.

    This is a working list, I’ll be back

    • Julian@lemm.eeEnglish
      112·
      5 months ago

      There’s also general gatekeeping of their developer tools which restricticts ports of software, and not following standards properly (USBc, sms).

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      5 months ago

      giving their 1st party native apps advantageous functionality competitors can’t (yet)

      Perhaps one day, other developers may be allowed into the holy land of JIT recompilation.