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submitted 8 months ago by sverit@feddit.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago

This. Smells like me too (the expression, not the movement) as opposed to a well thought out plan as to how they’ll tackle the monopoly.

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 52 points 8 months ago

Biden appointed a bunch of pretty vehemently anti-monopoly people to power, this is just how long it actually takes them to conduct an investigation thorough enough to bring suit.

[-] hamsterkill 5 points 8 months ago

The investigation actually started in 2019 under Trump's DoJ.

[-] Monument 11 points 8 months ago

Awhile back a non tech person at work got hoodwinked into a sales pitch by a no name “AI” vendor. They, of course, invited a distribution list of all the IT and IT adjacent people to this pitch, thinking their ingenuity was going to transform our workplace and they were going to get accolades.

During the pitch, the sales guy (or CEO?) talked about Google getting surprised by Open AI, and that they rushed to build Bard, so they “could have their own ‘Me Too’ moment.” (With an inflection to indicate the Me Too comment was a reference.)

While I was watching people unmute, stay silent, then mute again, multiple group chats lit up at once.

(And the guy either didn’t understand LLM’s, or was hoping we really didn’t. It was peak marketing speak. He got crushed in the Q&A, ultimately revealing that the extent of his offering was to resell access to an established LLM vendor.)

[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Hahahaha that’s awesome! All the while scary to see the snakeoil-ism in tech.

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