UNITED STATES SUES APPLE
by Lauren Feiner from The Verge - All Posts on (#6KH0D)
Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Getty Images The US Department of Justice accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in an expansive new antitrust lawsuit that seeks to upend many of the ways Apple locks down its phone.
The DOJ, along with 16 state and district attorneys general, accuses Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its phones. The parties allege that Apple selectively" imposes contractual restrictions on developers and withholds critical ways of accessing the phone as a way to prevent competition from arising, according to a release.
Apple exercises its monopoly power to extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and...