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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

In general, I agree. I'll add two things:

  • Android allows you to use third party launchers if you don't like the one that comes with your phone. I use Nova Launcher, for instance. I'm not an Apple person, but to my knowledge that's either not possible or a pain to do on an iPhone. It also lets me buy from different Android device manufacturers and keep a consistent UI across all of them.
  • Android has some serious UX issues in a few places. The one that gets me the most is when you share something. The interface you get differs based on the source app, sometimes only has a handful of visible options with no sorting or recency options, and it hides the fact that's you can scroll to see more, but never more than about four at a time.

Still, I'll take it over an iPhone any day.