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.

  • @[email protected]English
    15•9 months ago

    All I want is RCS on iPhone. I know Apple already said they’re working on it, but I hope legal pressure like this will force them to make the RCS/iMessage integration actually work well (instead of half-assing it which I assume is what they want to do, cuz they want their users to feel frustrated when texting their Android friends)

    • NebLemEnglish
      4•9 months ago

      Can’t we just move past carrier managed messaging? I’d rather my telecom to just be dumb pipes and move everyone to Signal and similar.

      • Tech With JakeEnglish
        8•9 months ago

        The iMessage lock-in is too real for some of us. I know some iPhone users who won’t even install FB Messenger (I know, I don’t use it either. Fuck the Zuck) because it’s not Apple/iMessage. I finally got my family on Signal and “OMG! We can send videos and pictures now!” Yeah, been saying it for years lol.

    • @AA5BEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      All I want is RCS on iPhone

      Me too, but isn’t this a chicken and egg situation?

      • why should Apple add it if carriers don’t support and you haven’t go through Google if you want secure messaging?
      • why should carriers support it if so many phones don’t, and why are they ceding security to Google?
      • is not Google also a monopolist?
      • is RCS even a useful standard if there’s not a consensus to make it ubiquitous?