To be fair, such investigations probably take considerable amount of time to get underway, and this whistleblower leak happened less than a month ago, IIRC.Not even a hard case ... although the case against Google is even easier.
Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war
Documents collected by whistleblower Frances Haugen could give the company "a lot to regret" in its fights to prove it's not a monopoly.www.politico.com
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U.S. Department of Justice Likely to File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple
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I came here specifically to ask this exact thing. What is the difference between Apple’s App Store and Nintendo’s eShop? Sony’s PlayStation store? I can’t “side load” stuff on my Switch and if I did it would be hacking it. Why do people want to hack their iPhones so badly?
These are all Apple's competitors. Since when do we implicate a business for anti-competitive behavior based on the opinions of the business's direct competitors? You can hardly say these are impartial and unbiased opinions, especially when these competitors are on the losing side of the competition in the name of which they're using to launch their assault on Apple.
The DOJ is not pro-consumer. They are anti-Apple and pro-Apple-competitors.
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The case against Facebook has been strong for a long time because it's a presumed monopoly due to its market power. The revelations simply make the case even easier because it reveals actual evidence. Anyway, any case against Apple, in comparison, is relatively thin -- practically non-existent in fact. It's an abuse of prosecutorial discretion and an ineffective use of limited tax payer money to choose hard cases over easy cases.
So the Biden administration is going after everything that protects are privacy, think about that.
Video game consoles aren't general purpose computing devices, that's the main issue.
Google and Apple brought it to themselves, some things like banking and government transactions are extremely complicated or downright impossible to complete without a smartphone these days
Name one democrat president that was banned from FacebookIt's funny how Republicans/Conservatives always complain about liberal bias or being silenced...
And yet we keep hearing from them. There is tons of R/C material being spread across the internet RIGHT NOW. And always has been. Facebook is FULL of right-wing stuff.
They'll also say "we're being silenced!" while sitting in front of a camera being broadcast to millions of TVs. And that video clip will be distributed on, guess what, social media.
If Facebook is liberal... why do I keep seeing conservative posts shared by my family members?
Answer: Conservative posts are the top-performers on Facebook.
Eh, careful. Apparently Facebook employees have been whistleblowing that Facebook execs have been over-ruling their own rules and employees and giving passes to right wing sites that would otherwise been restricted.
Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting politicians bend rules
Whistleblower docs suggest executives intervened to let contentious posts stay up.
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I don’t see what any of that has to do with anti-trust.Not even a hard case ... although the case against Google is even easier.
Facebook documents offer a treasure trove for Washington’s antitrust war
Documents collected by whistleblower Frances Haugen could give the company "a lot to regret" in its fights to prove it's not a monopoly.
What, so the government can crack open and break a secure and fair eco system - Um no thank you. If you want the Wild West and your data in a leaky sieve, migrate to Android. Leave Apples model the hell alone. I and many others choose iOS because it is a closed, safe, private, secure and tightly run Ecosystem; that is the appeal.
Nope, that's just your opinion. Not facts.
DOJ needs to fix Apple forcing 3rd party browsers through WebKit instead of their own Google Blink, Firefox Gecko, etc. engines on iOS/iPadOS. That's worse than Microsoft's Internet Explorer antitrust violation.
i think something is up in the good ol' USA.
now there are 2 USA say a town in west Virginia and there is washington DC
which had a major political scare were the middle class could have a say and maybe survive financially.
They never got over the Snowden snafu and just wants everyone to be and think the same way.
just the vibe from washington dc and the mainstream media is full of vengeance and their platform.
and that infrastructure includes internet and who know what else involved in that internet
and the control over how this is under surveillance.
kinda scary stuff
or just insecure fluff
we will know soon?
Interesting perspective.
I do recall my PS4 is capable of browsing the internet with the built-in browser.
Not that I would want to try managing my banking on the PS4 though.
He wasn't banned simply because he is a Republican.
He was banned because the platforms were citing a risk to public safety.
There was a lot more going on than just the (R) by his name.
How? It's Apple's hardware and OS, no one else can make an iPhone/iPad. They are well within their rights to restrict what can and can't run or what standards have to be used by App Developers.
Microsoft was charged with Anti-trust because they didn't make their own hardware and forced the manufacturers to install Internet Explorer on every Windows computer they made/sold. If Microsoft was the only company to produce Window's computers then they would have been fine with what they did.
Yes because the persons action have no merit, only the party they are associated with.
Would you be OK if the same rule concerning browsers applied to MacOS?
Two more questions:
1. Where can I download games for the X-Box?
2. Where can I download games for the PlayStation?
FYI — it is not illegal to have a monopoly.
I'd be fine with it yeah, but MacOS is not iOS and it's annoying how people keep trying to combine the two of them together. They are separate for a reason. Just because Apple does something with one of them doesn't mean they will or should do it with the other.
To expand on that, smartphones are now a phone, messaging device, GPS, camera, music player, radio, notebook, etc. for many people, so there are lots of opportunities for the mobile platform owners to use a strength in one area to act anticompetitively in another area.
