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Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.

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.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It could absolutely be argued Apple is definitely doing illegal stuff too. Just because you don’t think so doesn’t mean that’s true. Apple is doing a lot of things to lock consumers onto their platform and not allowing competition.

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- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not me. Me and the courts.
  
  Against what you think.
  
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  - Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    If it went to court at all, it’s not clearly legal. You saying “the courts” as a singular entity is misrepresenting the facts. Courts frequently come to different conclusions. Can you argue it’s legal? Sure. You can also argue it isn’t. A single court case is not consensus, it’s precedence (on the issues in that case specifically).
    
    AG Garland, in a lawsuit by the US DOJ has this to say:
    
    [“Monopolies like Apple’s threaten the free and fair markets upon which our economy is based. They stifle innovation. They hurt producers and workers and increase cost for consumers,” Garland said Thursday.
    
    “If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly. But there’s a law for that,” he added. ](www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/tech/…/index.html)
    
    Clearly the AG believes them to be a monopoly. I assume he knows more about that law than both of us combined.
    
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    TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    If it went to court at all, it’s not clearly legal
    
    That’s not how the legal system works. You can sue anybody for anything.
    
    The reality is, Apple got taken to court, comprehensively won the case, Epic acknowledged they never really had a chance anyway and said they’d go no further.
    
    It’s completely legal.
    
    Why are you against creating laws that will hold Apple accountable?
    
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