The lawsuit seeks to upend a major part of Apple’s business.

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

  • @NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    The apple watch thing is kinda interesting.

    So you make a watch and it has super tight integrations with OS level software on the phone.

    I can’t imagine they can force apple to write an Android app, which doesn’t even have the same system level access as their OS app and provide some sort of degraded service.

    Maybe they could force them to let it function in some limited way but where do you draw the line on forcing them to write android apps?

    • @shrugal@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      They don’t have to make extra apps, just remove restrictions that make some functionality exclusive to iPhones or Apple Watches. So iPhones get the same access to Apple Watches as other phones, and Apple Watches get the same access to iPhones as other watches.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      -2•1 year ago
      • You can use an Apple Watch without an iPhone.
      • anyone can create and sell a Watch App - Apple maintains the store and basic functionality
      • you can use another brand Watch with an iPhone - I see the apps
      • @DjMeas@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I think the point though is you might be able to connect a Garmin to your iPhone but only Apple Watches get special access to certain APIs because “security”.