Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoiOS is certainly far more locked down than Android.
But thats not really what courts are looking at with the Google stuff going on recently.
The courts take issue with Google strong-arming OEMs to do what Google says. Forcing them to include Google services, Google tracking, not to have other stores as default, etc. under threat of not allowing Google Apps, Play Store, or Play Services/notifications to work - something that is effectively a requirement if you want to sell your devices.
Apple isn’t doing that. Apple isn’t forcing OEMs to push Apple services and telemetry, because they own their own hardware business. Apple isn’t forcing Samsung/OnePlus/Sony/etc to do their bidding. Google is.
I firmly believe Apple should be made to open up their devices, but it cannot be done under current US law (unlike with Google, who is unquestionably abusive their dominant market position by strong-arming OEMs). Forcing Apple to open up would require something like a US equivalent to the EU’s recent Digital Markets Act.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
IIRC they are doing things like requiring payments to go through them, and all kinds of other monopolistic stuff. Yeah, they aren’t doing all the same things, but they’re doing a lot of it, and it’s more restricted by default so it’s even more pervasive.
ryper@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The payments requirement was the only win Epic got in its case against Apple. Apple now allows external purchase links, with a bunch of requirements and restrictions.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ah, OK. I don’t think I ever heard about that resolving, or if I did I didn’t care. That’s good that they were forced to allow that. It should probably go further still, like this Google case.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The point is, it can’t go further like in this Google case, because Google is abusing their dominant market position and Apple isn’t.
Google is doing something illegal. Apple is doing something legal, but anti-consumer.
That’s why I said in order to go after Apple, the US would first need something akin to the EU’s Digital Markets Act.