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I honestly don't understand the Anti-Trust part. The iPhone/ iPad is hardware designed, developed, and produced by Apple. iOS is software that is designed developed and produced by Apple. It can't be loaded on to other similar Hardware nor does Apple seek to do so. The App Store, only sells apps that work on Apple produced Hardware with iOS and nothing else. They are not the only or first smartphone producers, they are not the only or first tablet producers. To my understading, anti-trust would only arise if a situation arose like Google requiring that Samsung and all Hardware Producers were required to use Googles messages software. The only case like that I can see is for Apple is Apple Music for Android, which is defintely inferior to the iOS version.
 
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I honestly don't understand the Anti-Trust part. The iPhone/ iPad is hardware designed, developed, and produced by Apple. iOS is software that is designed developed and produced by Apple. It can't be loaded on to other similar Hardware nor does Apple seek to do so. The App Store, only sells apps that work on Apple produced Hardware with iOS and nothing else. They are not the only or first smartphone producers, they are not the only or first tablet producers. To my understading, anti-trust would only arise if a situation arose like Google requiring that Samsung and all Hardware Producers were required to use Googles messages software. The only case like that I can see is for Apple is Apple Music for Android, which is defintely inferior to the iOS version.

Their take is that the App Store is a monopoly. However, from my personal point of view, people have options of not buying into the App Store by selecting a different phone from a different manufacturer. Cook did explicitly state so, that Apple has Chinese manufacturers and Samsung to compete against.
 
Pichai is terrible. He doesn’t answer questions at all. But kind of odd that he‘s the one getting a question about Google being a communist sympathizer.
 
Remembering the later 90’s Microsoft anti-trust stuff, I would never thought that Apple would be having similar issues a little over 20 years later. Maybe Apple should buy stock in Microsoft, bundle Safari with Windows 10 and commit to iWork for Windows for at least 5 years to smooth things over. 😉
 
Some are just for "show"
They ask a question and when Cook starts talking they cut him off. It's all a farce

Dude, it's been awful - even with Barr yesterday, the way they act and portray themselves is disgusting. Not even a proper discussion but budgeting by each party for their narrative.

They are SOOOO out of touch with reality and daily life.
 
Google, Facebook, and Amazon are all reaching the point where they dominate their business space, and can manipulate that space for their benefit. They really are large enough that an antitrust investigation is warranted...large companies don't necessarily have to be broken up, but if they are manipulating the system for their benefit or to the detriment of others it's a problem.

Apple is a bit different...it competes with its own closed systems against other companies. It's a lot closer to how car companies work, really. Let's call Apple BMW...they charge for all kinds of additions to their cars, and people pay for them. It wouldn't be considered an antitrust issue, because you can go buy a car from Honda instead if you don't want to pay for those additions. That's how all of its stuff works...you have to choose to live in the Apple ecosystem, you don't have to, and then you have to pay to stay within that (as you do with other systems from Android, Windows, etc). It's not totally closed...you can use whatever earphones you want with your iPhone still, even if it requires an adaptor. Choices in what to offer are Apple's to make, and people can always choose to leave (yes, it's painful, but you can move to other platforms, making it easy or free is not required).

The App Store is a different issue...if you want to put software on an iPhone you have to go through Apple. But, pretty much everyone else has the same setup, and charges similar rates, Apple really isn't out of line with the industry here. And, the App Store isn't the only store...working within the store means accepting rules, just like within any other store. There is competition between the stores, there are some apps that don't exist in the Apple area (and lots of viruses, don't forget that!), so the problem here is people want things they can't have or developers want a bigger slice of the pie instead of sharing with Apple. Those aren't really antitrust issues, it's complaints that Apple does things people aren't happy with, not that they are doing anything illegal. (It's important to realize that the App Store isn't a industry in itself)

So, the question is more if this policy is correct...it's not illegal, but should there be a limit on how much of other people's effort a company should benefit from? Generalizing that, almost all of us work for someone else...should Jeff Bezos benefit so much from the work of people making low incomes? What percentage of the money made by independents that sell through Amazon go to Amazon? Does anything stop them from changing their charges? And, do these companies do things that kill competition? The last may be something Apple does through the App Store, and they shouldn't be. The real hard problem is how to deal with all of this legally...a lot of this comes from unregulated capitalism, which is just like what happened a century or so ago in the US in industry. There aren't limits to any of this, how those limits are set is really not a simple problem to solve, but it's obviously necessary now.
 
It's embarrassing to have national "leaders" so out of touch with what's going on with business and the tech sector, and instead using the cameras to try to look like they're being tough on CEOs. I just saw Gaetz talking about "Faceberk" and lambasting Pinchai for working with the Chinese building war planes instead of working with the US military. Pinchai had to patiently correct him. It's sad that these representatives are able to game the public into believing they're competent.
 
Good luck? Apple have been buying every start up and wipe them out so they do not have competitors. Every emerging new technology they buy and is never release. Like the oil companies that have been buying every green technology like the hydrogen engines that only emit water. Same thing. Apple is keeping all those invention like liquid metal, so nobody else can use it.

Good luck?
you do know that all big companies buy small companies with small pieces of technological expertise, right? Nothing to see here. That is one way that small companies monetize their owner's ideas. It would be almost impossible to create a small idea in a big market and compete solely on the benefit of the idea. Besides, no one forces a small company to sell, they sell because the like the terms of the deal.

Watch a few episodes of silicon valley.
 
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