Apple has officially responded to a non -confidence case against the Justice Department filed against it last year, accusing the company of monopolizing a smartphone and criticizing its “Walled Garden” view of business. It states that the legalization threatens the iPhone that separates the iPhone in the most competitive market, reduces consumer choice, as well as ends the competition. In addition, Apple has warned that it can set a “dangerous view” to allow the government to “take heavy hands in designing people’s technology”.
In its filing, as is the joint 9TO5MACApple responded to every point made by the agency in its complaint. The DOJ said that “Apple has stopped the success of ‘super apps’, or apps that offer numerous services on a platform, but the company’s filing states that its” rules allow and support such apps. ” “The company added that many of them are available today at the app store. Apple also denied the department’s allegations that it stops cloud streaming games and said it allows the game to run on the web and in the app store.
The company also said that the DOJ’s allegation harasses third party messaging apps, and that they are widely available on the iPhone. Apple denied that it restricts the functionality of third -party smart watches and said they “effectively connect with the iPhone”, as well as “can share data from the iPhone through a fellow app and from it.” Another allegation was that Apple has stopped accessing the iPhone hardware that a third -party digital wallet requires that they use their tape -salaries technology. The company said it “was developed and provides a procedure that protects the consumer safety while enables third party developers to offer alternative payment requests.”
The company wrote in its filing, “Apple is not just a monopoly.” He said that the DOJ measured its share in the smartphone market instead of sale of the unit. It also put smartphones and “Performance Smartphones” into a separate category, “which is not compatible with economic reality.” Apple accused the DOJ of focusing less on Apple.
As if 9TO5MAC Note, the legislature is now moving towards the discovery phase, where both sides will now have to collect evidence to support their case.
