The United States sues Apple: «Monopoly». The inventory collapses on the inventory market | EUROtoday

To maintain shoppers shopping for iPhones, Apple blocks cross-platform messaging apps, limits third-party wallets and smartwatch compatibility, and blocks applications that aren't on the app, in keeping with the Justice Department. Store and cloud-streaming companies. All points that, in fact, have already been raised in Europe, and for which Apple is making some modifications particularly for the European market.

The antitrust lawsuit may pressure Apple to make modifications to its enterprise mannequin associated to its most useful belongings: the iPhone, which recorded gross sales of greater than $200 billion in 2023, and the Apple Watch, which is a part of the $40 billion wearables enterprise.

“If left alone, Apple will only continue to strengthen its monopoly in the smartphone market,” wrote Justice Secretary Merrick Garland. Apple responded, with a press launch, that it doesn’t agree with the assumptions of this lawsuit and that it’ll defend itself within the acceptable boards. An Apple spokesperson, talking on CNBC, stated that «this lawsuit threatens who we’re and the ideas which have allowed Apple's merchandise to face out in very aggressive markets. If this lawsuit succeeds, it’s going to threaten our capacity to create the form of know-how individuals anticipate from Apple. It would additionally create a harmful precedent.”

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