The US Department of Justice achieved an initial victory in Anti -monopoly issue against Apple Today, with a federal judge refused Apple’s attempt to directly reject the lawsuit. Judge Julian Niels wrote in the government’s allegations, “It is sufficient to show Apple’s specific intention to fill the smartphone and smartphone market. opinion on monday.
Apple came to Rejecting In August 2024, on the pretext that the Ministry of Justice failed to show that Apple monopolizes the smart phone market or acted in an anti -competition manner. The company wrote that the lawsuit was based on a “strange” hypothesis that the success of Apple comes from “the deliberate deterioration of iPhone to prevent alleged competitive threats.”
The case is still progressing early, and the judge does not rule any of the government’s claims yet. But he says the allegations are “sufficient” to support allegations that Apple has acted in an anti -competition manner.
“We believe that this lawsuit is wrong in the facts and law, and we will continue to fight it strongly. freedom.
The government’s victory here was not necessarily given. When the Federal Trade Committee filed a lawsuit against Meta (then Facebook) for anti -competition practices in the field of social media, initially She refused her claims And forced it to recycling before the case It allowed to go ahead.
The Apple Ministry of Justice lawsuit claims that the company monopolizes the smart phone market by reducing the functions of potential competitive products, from applications to accessories. Jonathan Canter, head of the anti -monopoly department, said at the time that Apple has used “contractual rules and restrictions” to raise prices on consumers and developers and “competitive alternatives to suffocating from competing technologies.”
