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It depends. Apple is attempting to leverage its position in one market (hardware) to coerce another market (mobile applications). Under the historical antitru
by rprasad 16y ago
It depends.
Apple is attempting to leverage its position in one market (hardware) to coerce another market (mobile applications). Under the historical antitrust analysis, this would have been a per se antitrust violation to even attempt this.
Now, however, antitrust laws are no longer enforce. During the Bush administration,the DOJ's antitrust department was effectively gutted, and antitrust was moved close to the bottom of the DOJ's list of priorities.
Obama hasn't changed the DOJ's antitrust priorities since he took office, so any enforcement of antitrust laws will have to come from the states. Basically, that means New York's Attorney General, since California's not going to kill one of its tax cash cows.
- tomjen3 16y agoCalifornia is running out of money, so maybe they need some nice large anti-trust fines.
- zemanel 16y agoi'm counting at least on EU to throw a legal hammer on it someday. iOS is a platform/operating system and i see much danger in this. Can you picture TV networks asking for commissions on sales related to advertisement? Developers already have to pay (annual fee?) for deploying their applications on the appstore