The anti-trust suit is based on the claim that Apple controlled (or tried to control) the majority of the digital music market. Whether that claim sticks or not will have to wait for later in the legal proceedings. But that claim is far far weaker regarding Apple in the mobile apps market space, where purveyors of PalmOS, WindowsMobile, Brew, and Android (et.al.) apps have controlled the lions share of that market for the past decade plus.
This is true, unless they can prove that Apple controls some segment of the market, it's going to be a hard sell.
I noticed one part that was interesting: they seem to claim that if a person buys a song (or rights to a song) for system X, that right shouldn't have to be repurchased for system Y.
So back in the old days, you could purchase a cassette or CD with music. You could play that cassette or CD in players from Sony or any of many other brands.
Now, if you purchase app X or rights to use app X, you can only run it on 1 platform unless it's some kind of content app where the purchase is for the content and the app is just a way to get to the content.
However, people have bought software for PCs that were know for being OS specific (Mac, Windows, DOS,...) So generally, a person didn't have the "right" to run Windows software on a Mac.
This could come down to "what is an app". Some consider apps as content much like music is seen.
I don't know how they would look at this because software was alway OS specific, music, generally never was.
Does a person that buys the rights to a song or the rights to listen to the song on one specific device?
Back in the old days, you had records, tapes, and CDs... (IIRC) you had the right to "rip" or transfer from one format to the other because (again, IIRC) you've purchased the rights with the original purchase. ... So, if you bought a music CD, you had the right to make a tape or MP3 from your music CD, but didn't have the right to sell or distribute the MP3.
However, if buying an iOS app allows you to run the app on anything you want, does that mean that Apple must change it's OS to run Android products? --- Can't see that happening.