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This was the correct decision legally and from the public interest perspective. The App Store complaints were always a contractual dispute between businesses. D

This was the correct decision legally and from the public interest perspective. The App Store complaints were always a contractual dispute between businesses. Developers hoped to ride the antitrust wave that emerged over the past 5-6 years to renegotiate the terms in their favor. Unfortunately for them there was never any legitimate antitrust issues with Apple, as the district court has now confirmed. There's no reason for consumers to care about the business dispute developers have with Apple any more than they care about the carriage disputes between media and cable companies. And there are plenty of reasons why they would side with Apple, some of which were discussed in the court's decision.

EMIRELADERO 5y ago
> There's no reason for consumers to care about the business dispute developers have with Apple any more than they care about the carriage disputes between media and cable companies. What about the ability to run whatever I want on the device I own? And before you say that, no, the fact that you can purchase a competing alternative doesn't mean the current situation with iOS is not problematic. Having the same level of control over your device as the company that originally manufactured it and sold it to you is a consumer rights issue, not a "x has that feature and y doesn't" issue.