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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The Verge has such a hard on for this story. They’ve published like ten articles about it already.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair, it’s the most interesting story the verge has covered in about, well, as long as the verge has existed.

This is a big deal - it’s going to shape the entire tech industry for the foreseeable future. And it’s going to drag on in court and probably also congress for years and years.

Apple is the target of the lawsuit but the DoJ is also telling every other tech company what rules they need to operate under. The last decade of “just do whatever you want” is over.

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They have an entire story covering the US v Microsoft case. You should give it a read.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Because we all do, because someone is finally trying to do something about Apple's decades long walled garden anti-competitive bullshit.

What, are you upset that your favourite trillion dollar mega corp feels picked on?

[–] kirklennon@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m upset when the government wastes resources on a big lawsuit that it’s absolutely going to lose, because it’s weak on the law and inept on the not-that-complicated technological issues. I also question the leadership of an organization that, in the name of consumer protection, decides to target a product with ludicrously high customer satisfaction ratings. Consumers love their iPhones, perhaps more so than literally any other product they own. What a monumentally stupid target.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I like my iPhone so any criticism of Apple has to be unjustified"

Your reasoning is weak, do better.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Probably spent all his money on an iPhone, so none left for an education

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Yikes. You don't have to defend Apple in public my man, they have lawyers for that.

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Is that froth I see at your mouth?

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You do realize that you can like iPhones and Apple products while recognizing that a lot of Apple's business practices seriously hurt consumers, right?

I also don't think they'll lose. They have a ton of evidence of intentionally anti-competitive behavior from Apple.

[–] root@precious.net 4 points 1 year ago

Heroin has a pretty high user satisfaction rating too. You can't use customer satisfaction as a metric for legality.

Europe already did. That's just usa kind of catching up, if it ever success.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I expect them to cover this in as much detail as possible. They are probably the last big tech / business news website standing. I know Gizmodo, Engadget, Tech Crunch etc exist but nobody seems to have resources and connections The Verge does.

[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Good! It's a massive story.

They were like this about the Epic V Google suit too. their legal reporting team is over-the-top.

[–] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Think about all the legit clicks.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Really? I kept getting the feeling they were being sarcastic so I stopped reading