Justices sitting on the United States Supreme Court, the States highest Federal court, today seemed likely to allow a hearing against Apple to move forward. A class-action lawsuit against Apple for engaging in monopolistic practices to be exact. The monopolistic practice in question is the ‘walled garden’ App Store that every iOS and iDevice user…
Justices sitting on the United States Supreme Court, the States highest Federal court, today seemed likely to allow a hearing against Apple to move forward. A class-action lawsuit against Apple for engaging in monopolistic practices to be exact.
The monopolistic practice in question is the ‘walled garden’ App Store that every iOS and iDevice user is forced into using in order to obtain applications for their phone or tablet (or watch). Users are forced to jailbreak their devices to circumvent this requirement, which by virtue of Apple’s terms of service automatically relegates the device warranty worthless.
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Apple enjoys a 30 percent cut for all sales down via the App Store and the general idea is that consumers are getting gouged since they cannot purchase apps directly from developers at basically 30 percent cheaper.
