I mean sure, ignoring the fact that the justice department is actively suing Apple for being a monopoly, Apple isn’t a monopoly.
They’re accusing them of having a monopoly. That doesn’t mean they have a monopoly. Remember, the FTC sued Microsoft to try and stop them buying Activision because they claimed that would give them a monopoly on “high powered gaming consoles” despite Playstation - the clear market leader for 5 generations straight - outselling them 3:1 at the time, and probably closer to 10:1 right now. Not every lawsuit wins. The government aren’t always right.
Also courts ruled in this very case that Apple do not have a monopoly:
Notably, Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple wasn’t a monopoly, but rather a duopoly alongside Google, which was engaged in a similar legal battle with Epic over the Google Play store.
Ignoring the fact that a court of law ordered the situation being reported on, there’s no reason Apple should have to do what they are doing.
I’m saying no court or government should be allowed to order a business to allow someone to sell something on their store, or build functionality for them to be able to have their own store on a device. It’s absurd.
Apple weren’t ordered by the courts to put the game back on the store btw. They were ordered to not reject applications for the store based on them linking to an outside payment method. The Judge said if they rejected the application for any reason they would need to go to court AGAIN to prove that it wasn’t because of that. Apple just approved it instead.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
FYI, this person is a sealion. Their MO is stringing people along with bad faith arguments in an attempt to waste their time.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Appreciated, just threw a user tag on them so I can ignore them in the future.