Does it though? Many here have already pointed out that the two companies aren’t competitors, there is no overlap in the products they offer. Correct me if I’m wrong (and I very well might be since, like I said, I don’t have the legal knowledge required), but isn’t anti-competitive behavior when a company uses its favourable /monopolistic position in a market to give itself an unfair advantage in another market? That’s how I understood it. If they’re not competing, then by definition, they can’t be using anti-competitive behavior in this case. And since, from my understanding, antitrust isn’t applicable here, investigations/cases/rulings pertaining to antitrust shouldn’t be taken into account in this instance. Justice is blind.
I’m not arguing it doesn’t have the potential to look bad to the public though. But, as someone already pointed out earlier in the thread, most people will have forgotten about it tomorrow...
Apple is being investigated for, among other things, abusing their position as “gatekeeper” of the App Store to get their 30% cut of sales, preventing apps from being installed any other way, and favoring their own apps over third-party developers. It could be argued here that Apple is bullying small developers by threatening to bury them in litigation over essentially nothing. It probably won’t be argued, but it’s definitely a possibility.