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.

  • proleEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    Maybe people aren’t spending $500-$1200 on a device just because it has a headphone jack. Like that’s anyone’s top concern.

    • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Zen phone 10 has everything you need and a 3.5mm jack

      Why isn’t it outselling the rest of them?

      • proleEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Are you asking me to explain microeconomics to you? Ask 100 people in the US if they’ve ever heard of Zen Phone, and 99 will tell you no.

        And, again, that’s nobody’s top concern. Maybe if it was an mp3 player, rather than a phone, whether or not it has a headphone jack would be higher up on the priority list.

        • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          If it was that important, people would have heard about it

            • iopq@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              8 months ago

              So 3.5mm is actually a complaint from a loud minority

              It never became a major selling point for the phones that still have it