Apple uses the dominance of the iPhone to illegally suppress competition in ways that harm consumers, the US Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit filed Thursday. Apple has denied it acts illegally, with spokesperson Fred Sainz saying that the suit “threatens who we are and the principles that set Apple products apart in fiercely … Read more
Back in 2022 at the annual Code Conference, where tech luminaries submit to on-stage interviews, an audience member asked Apple CEO Tim Cook for some tech support. “I can’t send my mom certain videos,” he said, because she used an Android device incompatible with Apple’s iMessage. Cook’s now-infamous response was, “Buy your mom an iPhone.” … Read more
The US Department of Justice had long been expected to file an antitrust lawsuit against Apple. But when the suit arrived Thursday, it came with surprising ferocity. In a press conference, attorney general Merrick Garland noted that Apple controlled more than 70 percent of the country’s smartphone market, saying the company used that outsize power … Read more
The argument is one that some Apple critics have made for years, as spelled out in an essay in January by Cory Doctorow, the science fiction writer, tech critic, and coauthor of Chokepoint Capitalism. “The instant an Android user is added to a chat or group chat, the entire conversation flips to SMS, an insecure, … Read more
Google pays Apple 36% of its search advertising revenue from Safari, according to new details brought to light in Google’s search antitrust trial on Monday as reported by Bloomberg. The mere utterance of the number, which Google and Apple have tried to keep sealed, caused Google’s main litigator John Schmidtlein to visibly cringe. Google’s Antitrust … Read more
Google’s antitrust trial revealed the multi-billion dollar tech company paid out a whopping total of $26.3 billion in 2021 to keep its status as the default search engine on phones and multiple browsers, Bloomberg Law reported Friday. The Justice Department argued that by spending an exorbitant amount of money to retain its default status, Google … Read more
Image: BongkarnGraphic (Shutterstock) How much is it worth to be the iPhone’s default search engine? Somewhere between $18 and $20 billion a year. According to a Bernstein analyst, that’s how much Google is paying Apple to keep its top spot, representing roughly 15% of the iPhone maker’s annual operating profits. No Google AI Search, I … Read more
SpaceX’s Starship rocket at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.Photo: SpaceX In another discrimination accusation against SpaceX, the private space company is being sued by a former employee for alleged underpayment of women and minorities. Tesla Investors Not Happy With Mr. Tweet’s Tweets Former SpaceX engineer Ashley Foltz filed a lawsuit at the California state court … Read more
Picture: Serhii Yevdokymov / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock) As Google confronted off in opposition to the Division of Justice on the primary day of a hotly anticipated antitrust trial, firm lawyer John Schmidtlein laid out an attention-grabbing perspective. “This case is admittedly all about Microsoft,” Schmidtlein stated. For those who can identify one search engine aside from … Read more