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It's unlikely that the US will force Apple to make EU-style changes. It's been 26 years since the DOJ went after Microsoft and lost, and corporate regulation ha
by Miraste 2y ago
It's unlikely that the US will force Apple to make EU-style changes. It's been 26 years since the DOJ went after Microsoft and lost, and corporate regulation has only grown weaker.
- bogwog 2y agoHave you been following the news on this topic lately? Antitrust enforcement has had a huge resurgence under Biden, and it's actually looking like Google may get broken up soon. See: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/11/24216760/google-trial-monopoly-remedies-rivals https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/11/24216760/google-trial-mon...
- lolinder 2y agoWhat Google's rivals want and what this judge ends up deciding to do and what actually gets enforced in the end are three entirely different things.
- Miraste 2y agoI have, and I don't believe that higher courts will ever go along with it. Microsoft lost their initial case too, and was ordered to break up at the time. Appeals courts prevent real change like that from happening--see the fate of the recent non-compete ban. Precedent suggests the antitrust cases will end in a small fine or a procedural change, at most.
- ASalazarMX 2y ago"Alphabet extrudes smaller, useles Google to satisfy regulators"