Technology

59429 readers

2916 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

979

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

258 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Now we just need the US to force carriers to automatically unlock phones after they are paid off.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (7 children)

They do actually. What you're talking about is unlocking the bootloader.

I wanted to borrow a friend's [old] phone to try out graphene but he got it from Verizon and they keep the bootloaders locked so it was worthless.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As soon as smartphones started becoming commonplace in like 2009 or so, I dropped Verizon because I wasn't going to pay $500 for a smartphone that couldn't have custom roms. Verizon can go fuck themselves.

load more comments (6 replies)