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Fucking FINALLY
Some of what the DoJ has looked into:
How the Apple Watch works better with iPhone than other smart watches do.
How Apple locks competitors out of iMessage.
How Apple blocks financial firms from offering tap-to-pay services similar to Apple Pay.
Whether Apple favors its own apps and services over those provided by third-party developers.
How Apple has blocked cloud gaming apps from the App Store.
How Apple restricts the iPhone’s location services from devices that compete with AirTag.
How App Tracking Transparency impacted the collection of advertising data.
In-app purchase fees collected by Apple.
Please stop, I can only get so erect!
“how apple tracking transparency impacted the collection of advertising data”
Isn’t that a good thing?
In general yes, but it can still serve as a red flag since any company being able to affect an entire half of another industry they’re not even involved in probably isn’t a great sign
None of those include the App Store/sideloading, though, or blocking root access on all devices other than macOS, which is unfortunate.
It’s a start, though.
I’m also missing that they block all competition in the browser engine space.
blocking root access on all devices other than macOS,
Hopefully, more is done as far as root access. Side loading is a matter of when not if, but root is far more of a gray area IMO.
And MacOS isn’t safe btw, they’ve been neutering sudo on MacOS for the past few versions now and I suspect it’s to prepare it and people for a future “walled garden desktop OS”.
I think they are going to shift people to iPads where it’s already locked down. People already accept a locked down iPad, but not a locked down Mac. Maybe it’s why the Mac’s are so expensive compared to the air.
Reading those comments was a mistake, I’m actually in shock at how some people are so blindly in love with apple that they have to misconstrue and bastardize everything they read to make apple look like the “good guy”. It’s a damn antitrust suit, and one the DOJ has been investigating for years, they wouldn’t launch it unless they had something to prove
Man, I hate this garbage. Sure as a consumer, it be nice to have some of this stuff more open, but this is Apples product. The government attempting to control how they operate it is insane. It’s not like there isn’t an alterative to iOS and the Apple Ecosystem. If I ever created an incredibly successful business like Apple I would want to be able to operate it how I please. This is nuts.
Doesn’t understand an entity can become large enough to have its own gravity.
