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Original Jailbreak App Store Cydia Sues Apple for its Monopoly:
The iPhone's original—and unofficial—app store has sued Apple, accusing the company of having a monopoly on the distribution of apps.
Cydia, an app store created and launched in 2007 by Jay "Saurik" Freeman, one of the original jailbreakers filed the lawsuit against Apple on Thursday.
"Were it not for Apple's anti competitive acquisition and maintenance of an illegal monopoly over iOS app distribution, users today would actually be able to choose how and where to locate and obtain iOS apps, and developers would be able to use the iOS app distributor of their choice," the lawsuit reads.
The lawsuit was first reported by The Washington Post.
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday December 15 2020, @07:44PM (6 children)
The third-party apps are not Apple's product. I don't know the legal situation, but Apple should not have the right to force a certain way of distribution on other people's apps.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 15 2020, @08:07PM (5 children)
That would be true if there no alternative to Apple. As it is, they have the right to pick and choose who sells their product and how it is sold. Here again we pick the wrong target, like the bullshit about facebook's "monopoly". The only real monopolies are in service provision, AT&T, Verizon, etc, and banking/payment systems with Visa and Mastercard, etc. That is the very closed market that shouldn't be allowed. These are the real monopolies we should attack, not trinkets and entertainment
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2020, @10:29PM (4 children)
Trinkets? 2.17T(APL) market cap vs 217B(T).
Apples influence has far reaching influence on electronics, schools, software development, movies, browser standards, music, silicon foundaries, navigation, the telecoms themselves, and more...
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday December 15 2020, @11:05PM (3 children)
They only have the influence given to them. Their power comes from their fans' attachment to the product. They still retail in trinkets to the general public. They provide nothing we can't live without. I consider all this a bullshit distraction from the real monopolies in communications, energy, banking, etc
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Touché) by coolgopher on Wednesday December 16 2020, @02:37AM (2 children)
You realise it's also possible to live without commtech, energy, banking, etc, right?
Obligatory xkcd. [xkcd.com]
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Wednesday December 16 2020, @03:00AM (1 child)
Sorry, Apple is not a "problem". Not a real one by any means.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2020, @07:14PM
I knew it! Apple is not real!