Headline : The DOJ’s Flabby Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple

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After spending more than 25 years in the technology space — including 17 years in San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley — few things flabbergast me. But then came Thursday’s announcement from the Department of Justice with its antitrust lawsuit against Apple.

I’m still reeling from it. The lack of logic astounds me. The DOJ’s expansive nature of this antitrust complaint is based on archaic data — as if Ma Bell still operated as it did up to the early 1980s. If the Justice Department uses these primarily false arguments at face value, it’s hard for me to believe it can prevail against Apple.

If you look at the lawsuit from a top-level view, Apple’s biggest alleged victims are IT and banking giants. The suit clearly aims to force antitrust legislation reforms Congress hasn’t authorized. Moreover, harm to the consumer is incredibly unclear in this lawsuit.

The DOJ claims Apple uses a smartphone monopoly to lock people into its closed system and undercut competitors — a credible theory that discernibly deserves inspection. Apple controls 55% of the U.S. smartphone market, giving it colossal app ecosystem power. No one doubts that.

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