The lawsuit seeks to upend a major part of Apple’s business.

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

  • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The apple watch thing is kinda interesting.

    So you make a watch and it has super tight integrations with OS level software on the phone.

    I can’t imagine they can force apple to write an Android app, which doesn’t even have the same system level access as their OS app and provide some sort of degraded service.

    Maybe they could force them to let it function in some limited way but where do you draw the line on forcing them to write android apps?

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I can’t imagine they can force apple to write an Android app, which doesn’t even have the same system level access as their OS app and provide some sort of degraded service.

      No, they can’t really force it. But it’s evidence in support of the accusation.

      But I wanted to point out, Android is much, much more permissive in what peripherals and apps can do. And they’d likely be able to bake Android support in by utilizing the already available Wear OS API.

      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        But I wanted to point out, Android is much, much more permissive in what peripherals and apps can do.

        That’s kinda true, but not what I was getting at. Android has restrictive background processing limits and the APIs around it keep getting more restrictive and the OEMs like Samsung keep ignoring the rules of how things should work and break your apps when you do it right anyway… Ultimately it’s incredibly difficult to write an app and guarantee background work.

        Apple, is even worse on its restrictions of background work, but Apple owns the OS and and can bypass it all for their watch.

        Apple will never get to bypass the fuckery you have to deal with on Android, only the Android OEMs get that.