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.

  • @iopqEnglish
    -3•8 months ago

    There are still phones with 3.5mm jacks and they are not the best selling models

    • proleEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      Maybe people aren’t spending $500-$1200 on a device just because it has a headphone jack. Like that’s anyone’s top concern.

      • @iopqEnglish
        -1•8 months ago

        Zen phone 10 has everything you need and a 3.5mm jack

        Why isn’t it outselling the rest of them?

        • proleEnglish
          2•8 months ago

          Are you asking me to explain microeconomics to you? Ask 100 people in the US if they’ve ever heard of Zen Phone, and 99 will tell you no.

          And, again, that’s nobody’s top concern. Maybe if it was an mp3 player, rather than a phone, whether or not it has a headphone jack would be higher up on the priority list.

          • @iopqEnglish
            0•8 months ago

            If it was that important, people would have heard about it

              • @iopqEnglish
                0•8 months ago

                So 3.5mm is actually a complaint from a loud minority

                It never became a major selling point for the phones that still have it