US Department of Justice sues Apple for having an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market

Today the United States Department of Justice has sued Apple, claiming the company has maintained an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market, locking in its customers, driving up prices, and selectively imposing contractual restrictions on developers, withholding critical ways of accessing functionality to prevent competition. “Apple exercises its monopoly power to extract more money from […]

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Samsung’s display monopoly to take a hit with iPhone 15

Last year, Apple trusted LG Display to deliver complex, low-power-consuming OLED panels with LTPO (Low-Temperature Polycrystalline Oxide) for its premium iPhone model, the iPhone 14 Pro Max. However, because of some yield issues in the last quarter of the year, LG wasn’t able to fulfill the delivery and could only supply 10 million such panels, […]

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During trade talks with Japan, a U.S. senator called out PlayStation’s ‘monopoly,’ defending Xbox

What you need to know The United States and Japan are currently in talks to expand co-operation in various areas.  One of those areas is trade, and during a Senate trade hearing, Washington senator Maria Cantwell raised the issue of competition between Xbox and PlayStation in the region.  Using the FTC’s “high-end” console market designation, […]

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