The United States Department of Justice and more than 16 U.S. states treat Apple as a monopoly. The DOJ is accused of big tech using anti-competitive tactics to favor its products and be dominant in the market. An investigation was opened in 2019, but the DOJ's antitrust division chose to focus on its implementation in the Google case.
Among the points of investigation that allowed the Department of Justice to open the process against anticompetitive and monopoly practices:
- Blocking streaming apps on the new, like Nvidia Geforce Now game streaming — second by the DOJ, these services diminish the need for the smartphone as well as high-end, or which harms Apple's sales.
- Improve message quality and integration between iPhone and other Android platforms.
- Difficult to create digital maps with Tap to Pay functionality por terceiros.
Therefore, the most “estranho” is Apple's argument to limit the functionality of smart watches from other brands on iPhone and to restrict compatibility with the Apple Watch. Second, the DOJ, in this way, is a great technological force for iPhone users who want to buy their watch.
But Apple uses this strategy to manufacture Apple Watches compatible with its smartphones so as not to harm iPhone sales. In order for a customer to buy an Apple Watch and use the Xiaomi 14 Ultra, a big tech loses an iPhone sale.
No, Samsung is also removing compatibility of the Galaxy Watch with its rival's smartphone. If Apple lost this process and the American justice system wants to release the Apple Watch for Android, it is proven that Samsung opened the Galaxy Watch for the iPhone – by personal contact or by “spontaneous book and pressure” of a other similar process.
Apple weighs in on the case
Apple spokesman Fred Sainz says the process improves Apple's principles. Sainz says that if something goes wrong, the ability to “create the type of technology that people expect from Apple” is detrimental.
Apple's situation seemed even more complicated a few days ago. Apesar de be cleared in the monopoly process opened by Epicresponsible judge says big tech can't stop developers from disclosing their own cobrança times.
But because Epic is a big company, the Department of Justice, an agency equivalent to our Department of Justice, is a very small plus. This question is also because the United States Camera Commission also considers Apple to have a monopoly on iOS.
Information on: Bloomberg, The edge
