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.

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Now we just need the US to force carriers to automatically unlock phones after they are paid off.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      8 months ago

      They do actually. What you’re talking about is unlocking the bootloader.

      I wanted to borrow a friend’s [old] phone to try out graphene but he got it from Verizon and they keep the bootloaders locked so it was worthless.

      • MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        8 months ago

        As soon as smartphones started becoming commonplace in like 2009 or so, I dropped Verizon because I wasn’t going to pay $500 for a smartphone that couldn’t have custom roms. Verizon can go fuck themselves.