Read more about the monopoly case pitting the DOJ against Apple’s antitrust winning streak: on.wsj.com/3JkLT4y

"Raise prices above a competitive level, and to exclude competition" -- Hmm almost like the health care and prescription drug system...

They also monopolized how they repair their products

I own an independent repair shop. If a customer want's an aftermarket display or battery then a message will pop up saying, "Cannot verify if an original part is used, please contact apple". This message scares off customers and then they want on OEM apple part. I can buy an apple part from apple for 2 or 3X the cost of an aftermarket. I then have to contact apple and give them a serial number and order number for apple to serialize the parts to the logic board. Apple has agreed to right to repair however they have still cornered the billion dollar repair industry with this software serialization of parts. Apple also does this with the new macbooks. There have been times when an update has been released and I see many ipads/iphones/macbooks come into my shop. I once had over 13 ipads come in in one week after an update (all ipads where of the number series & 2-3 yrs old). All ipads had bad batteries. Coincidence? I think not. Apple Sux and their corporate values have gone astray.

I'm surprised that neither the EU nor the DOJ did something about apple's xcode(which is mac exclusive) requirement to publish apps to iOS, MacOS watchOS etc.

"Just buy your mom an iPhone"

Apple, "We don't allow our devices to work on other OS." "We don't allow others companies' smartwatches, and other accessories to work properly." "We don't allow apps to use 3rd party payment methods." "We don't allow apps to even mention that user can subscribe on app website." "We don't allow 3rd party app stores in our OS" "We don't allow sideloading" "We make almost impossible to leave our walled garden." Also Apple "We are not a monopoly."

Sounds like Apple didn't give the right comgressmen their heads up stock information... Bc why else would they be doing this?

When a company is broken up, the owner(s) of the broken up company just become the owner(s) of the newly "freed" company/companies. When Standard Oil was broken up, the "freed" companies merged into smaller Standard Oils so the only thing that changed was that we went from one company to a handful of companies owned by the same people.

US government: oh but IMessage. The rest of the world: what’s iMessage? Is that like WhatsApp or telegram?

But they don’t go after the real estate monopolies

The purchase of competitor companies in the beginnings of their existence and then having their products/services completely disappear, is the most common method of eliminating the competition; this should be illegal, the cost of this practice is charged to the consumers.

building seamless integration is fine. but when you proactively control integration with other protocols (RCS), it is sure monopoly!

If they're able to breakup this monopoly, I'd love for them to force back touch id and the headphone jack similar to how the EU finally got them to switch over to USB-C and also make their APIs more available to third parties can develop more sophisticated gadgets similar to the Apple Watch

I hope they fix ram and disk upgrade prices. Back when you could add ram to the imac I could tolerate those prices, but now there is no way to upgrade machine later. Everything is soldered…

Amazon. Microsoft. Walmart. Meta. Google. AT&T (again). Keep going DOJ… let’s get back to realistic business sizes.

Now do this with food companies🤷🏼‍♂️

there is no dennying that apple has a manopoly on :- repairing apple devices. - only autheriesed repairers can obtain parts and to be autheriesed you have to agree to replace expensive sections of devices rather small repairs like a single faulty cable/chip making repairs uneconomical. people able to carry out these repairs like this have no access to parts unless they agree not to carry out these repairs. iphone app distribution - dictates what apps can/cant be released to users - cannot even change the deffault apps like maps, browser, etc from apples dictated choice

It doesn’t matter, if they are found guilty it’s a slap on the wrist and they will eventually have a workaround. It’s all theater to make it look like they’re doing something… probably a small fine and they will not admit any guilt

Can someone enlighten me on the superior app integration that Apple has on it's competitors? Also, does this mean we can finally see improved messaging between android and apple?

"This lawsuit could cost Apple millions of dollars" I'm so sorry to hear that. I hope that there almost $400 billion in revenue can with stand this massive cost :(

And the fact that you just cannot use old devices anymore while they should be fine to use with the old software

So why isnt the clayton antitrust act applied here too?

What about Amazon,Google,Facebook??

For those who don’t understand what a monopoly is, A monopoly is when you have 3 properties and then you can buy houses for them…you’re welcome

do we get alternate app stores for xbox, playstation and Nintendo Switch too? Like Microsoft has a Monopoly of 100% on Xbox

"We have no monopoly" but no matter what program you buy, you have to buy it at our store.... See??? No monopoly!!!! From the devoloper side: So I have to buy a mac, and mac programming software to write apps for apple products??? Yeah!!! What monopoly?????

this people got nothing better to do?

0:01 That sounds like "monopolies like apples" as in the fruit and not the company. I mean who doesn't know the monopoly of the fruit?

I'd love another one of these videos but on the UFC.

Why do people use Apple products anyways? They're overpriced and opensource free versions of their software are almost always better. Not to mention, Windows is better overall.

A well explained breakdown of the Sherman Act!

"illegal monopoly" implies the existence of a "legal monopoly"

Can someone break this down for me? How is there a monopoly? I am free to buy whatever phone I want, and if I want to switch from Apple to Samsung, I am free to do so? If I have bought several Apple products and "locked" my self in the Apple environment, that's my solely my fault and not Apples' fault? The same would go for Samsung, if I wanted to switch to Apple? Or am I missing something?

It's true apply make it hard to switch

Those 30% cut for app developers is big problem.. and phone you can not repair or pc

So when you getting rcs apple. Time to adopt current cellular standards

"We have no monopoly there is no monopoly here" will become a meme

Tim Cook: We need to decrease our market share. The easiest way to achieve this is to increase prices for all products.

5:18 chk

3:30 1. You can use apps not from the app store but maybe they are Not Safe. But you can do it 2. You can use other cloud streaming apps, you just need to download them and put your files in 3. Just use WhatsApp or Telegramm or Instagram or any app, maybe SMS 4. There are other smart watches which can be used with the iphone. But they are often not so good. You cant use the apple watch with android but you also cant use a google watch with the iphone 5. There are numerious other payment options like paypal or apps from your bank. But this is the one point where the alternatives are really not as good. So a valid point

One of the facts I’ve choose Apple over any Google phone is how they handle the third party software on their phones. That level of security can’t be achieved otherwise, I’m afraid. And of course, they are actually well made. Now in terms of pricing, yeah Apple take a bit too much the goblin side.

In short, yes. I wrote my thesis on ecosystems and quite obviously Apple was one of the leading examples. Apple has evolved into an infrastructure provider (everybody needs phones just as roads, electricity lines etc.) and consumers benefit from network effects in infrastructure settings (e.g., compatibility). For these reasons competition is not beneficial and its a winner takes it all situation (maybe there is space for a second solution but thats it). In the past, infrastructure was built by governments and provided to everyone, without profits in mind. However, Apple can charge whatever they want for their infrastructure accessibility. Similar monopolies are with Google, Facebook, Microsoft...

Refusal to support RCS, 3rd party app stores (and side loading), and lock out independent repair... clear monopoly. You also have to manually switch off imessage if you switch to android or dumb phone.

No

Interesting insights, I never knew Apple was under scrutiny 🍎.

As an Android user who wholeheartedly dislikes Apple and the things they do to block off their ecosystem, I don't think they have a case. I feel that way about Apple and I have the choice to not be involved with their business. Not a monopoly in my eyes if you have the option to not use their products\services.

It's obviously not a monopoly, the have a very dominant position, but you can use Android or any of the others.

It’s about time

There are so many things in this country I care more about than Apple and TikTok and it annoys me that these are the priorities. How about health care, medication pricing, affordable education and child care… idk… important stuff that affects our day to day.

Apple was warned from the same agency that if they encrypted iCloud, it would not be good. Apple encrypted iCloud. I wonder if there's a correlation.

generally speaking not that i think of apple for antitrust but it's a broad category...if the public like them why not elect one.

I'm not an Apple Fanboy and haven't owned an Apple device in years (I used to love my iPod a couple of years ago though). But I don't believe what they are doing is bad. At their peak they innovated and now have all the right to do what they're doing, They were smart. enough.

As we walk into a new tech world, where your phone is really like an access point to the rest of the world, possibly replacing transportation, communications, data storage, behavior statistics/advertisement capabilities, and personal identification. Thus I'd suggest the following changes... (I've used iPhone since 2009 starting iphone 3GS, and do have a hard time switching over to other products) DOJ should focus on breaking Apple into hardware company, software company, online market place company, and credit service company. Much like how windows can be installed onto Mac and MacOs onto PC, the hardware should be made available and transparent within US territory to US users to the very least. Should other nations wish it, it should also be available for users to choose their hardware. In addition, 'jailbreak' should not be a 'break' from its software and waives warranty, but an option to opt in or out of, so users have their rights to access their own data, and gets decide to protect it using other tools or to use it eslewhere without requiring to purchse additional storage on clouds or bigger phone storage. Also, those software updates should not been a required download for newer phone, and should be more transparent on what is changed (including battery efficiency or battery consumption, to avoid secretly forcing the device to burn out and shorten the lifespan of an iphone behind user's back). Also, the messaging tool 'iMessage' should open to include government oversight so that scam and fraudsters can be held responsible. Apple Pay and In-App purchases should follow standard like VISA and only charge a minor fee, not a whopping 30% for similar services. App-control/approval mechanism should be more transparent, and should not be made-available by Apple company, instead it should be available to either the community or for government oversight.

I’m 50/50 on this case. The oxygen sensor case does make Apple look anticompetitive but it only has a strong market share in the states when it comes to smart phones.

They should go after the cable companies then.if you dont have competition you pay up your asz for service

How super apps improve security and privacy?

How about a share swap with Bytedance?

I feel like United Health is the worst Monopoly...

If Apple wins the monopoly case, then other companies will follow Apple and that's not good for the consumers 💯

🚩Trump: I’m no puppet. 🚩Cook: There’s no monopoly here. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

3:50 i just realized why theyre doing this. They all have Iphones (congress etc) and they cant do alot of what Android users can do. So theyre just gonna take the whole company down instead of making a law... Which is a waste of time too. More " im rich I should get what i want"

This was funny when a woman picking up the two iPhones in her hand to see which one is better and they both look the same 🎉🎉

There is Samsung, Xiaomi, Huaiwei, Sony, Google.

Second question out of all of the reporters here, how many are using iPhone?

The DOJ are being very foolish here. There are many other Smartphones competing against Apple. Just because it has become the popular or defacto phone in the US doesn't mean its a monopoly.

Now apply this logic to smart cars and the medical field… and you might start to realize that being big doesn’t mean you’re a monopoly

That’s like saying stores at Disneyland is an illegal monopoly

Going after Apple, which clearly is not a global monopoly, when they should have gone after Meta, which definitely is.

If apple used RCS for their phone, that would likely break down some of their monopoly.

There more are monopoly companies then my 10 fingers and 10 toes combine...Boy the justice so behind in its times....

Hmm.. Break up the company like Standard Oil.. And we'll have Oranges, Pears, Coconuts, Grapefruits and etc 😂😂😅

Government goes after big tech but true monopolies, eyeglasses, cable, and prescriptions, are all off the table

Need a apple charger as no other chargers work on iPhone... Android user can't see clear video sent from phone to phone...

They’re saying that because 70% of people use iPhones in US they have a monopoly🤔Just is the better product, not the only one, therefore not a monopoly

03:05, what? You ALLEGE? For god sake, you are the one (DOJ) suing apple. You should not use those kind of words here.

If the DOJ is able to prove that 70% market share is an effective monopoly, that’s going to have a major effect on multiple industries. It’ll make it easier for them to prosecute future anti-trust cases against major corporations.

Coke, Pepsi and Comcast’s are the OG’s of the monopoly market and no one arguing about that.

WSJ 🔥

Everyone loves the growth of a company till its a Monopoly. Irony.

Instead we should say Apple is more popular because of its best product and service. And that comes at an investment which for some may seem more than others but if you consciously decide to find out whether it is more or not then you will find that you are getting best of everything and it’s an optimal combination of every good aspect of technology, service and price.

When Apple is in love with China Factory and server capacity, DOJ punish it!🤣🤣

You really had to tuck that "if the DOJ is right, then it's a real win for consumers" at the very end huh.

Have the gov’t ever thought that Apple’s large market share is due to consumers’ preference? I like Apple products and I agree that its closed system does provide better security. From what I heard, most often than not, security breach happened with 3rd parties.

I 100% agree that Apple is a monopoly and I’m pro free market. They make it completely impossible to compete and to even integrate with them without a hefty hefty fee

Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney

Agree 100% that's why I never used apple in my life

just ask a KZfaq reviewer. apple is monopolizing its product. I have switched to iOS, Android, and Windows PC. boy it surely is hard to communicate with everyone if you are on Android especially if Apple doesn't allow you to send to Facetime or even use Airdrop to my laptop

iOS on non-apple made products sounds like a good idea.

You can’t personalize your products basically lol 😂

same like Microsoft ?

"There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

Why are my utility providers allowed monopolies?? Electricity, Internet Service, Gas

If they have monopoly power does that mean their company is worth monopoly dollars?

I own an iphone and my Android phone is my backup phone

I bought an iPhone because I wanted an iPhone if I wanted an android I would have buy one! Apple is not a Monopoly!!! Let’s donate to Apple so they can win this case! Do NOT Android my IPhone!

Apple's really guilty of making superior products.

Not happening

The DOJ 😂

How dare a company make a popular product