"The complaint is a misguided plea for judicial redesign of one of the most popular and innovative consumer products of all time, under the guise of an antitrust case."
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"Performance smartphones, "Apple's lawyers had argued, was “an invented definition divorced from commercial reality.”
Read More Judge: Apple may have monopoly control of a 'distinct submarket'
Apple rival Google loses another monopoly case
6 months ago
6 months ago"The government claimed in the case that Google used its power on both sides of the market to raise prices and squeeze out rivals."
The case against Apple began during the first presidential term of Donald Trump and was filed during the administration of President Joe Biden.
Read More Antitrust: Judge will hear Apple's motion for dismissal today
Apple's 'gerrymandered' monopoly
1 year ago
1 year agoFrom Austin Carr's "Google’s Antitrust Loss Offers Clues to Apple in Fight With Regulators" ($) posted Monday by Bloomberg.
At issue is the “revenue share” Google pays to distribution partners to keep its search engine front and center with users.
"Apple developing an internal [search engine] would mean lower revenue and higher expenses." — Analyst Samik Chatterjee
Read More J.P. Morgan: The Google judgement is going to cost Apple, one way or another
"This remains the only anti-trust action involving Apple that we view as a material risk as it directly targets the ~$20B payment that Apple receives from Google." — Analyst Amit Daryanani
Read More Evercore: What Google's monopolist ruling means for Apple
Google faces the music
1 year ago
1 year agoGoogle illegally maintained a monopoly in search services and text advertising through the use of exclusive distribution agreements with the likes of Apple, Amit Mehta, the judge who presided over the case, found on Monday.
New spotlight on Microsoft's IT monopoly
1 year ago
1 year agoMicrosoft inherited IBM's iron grip on the federal and business markets and never let go.
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