Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has paved the way for consumers to sue Apple for their monopolistic practices.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that iPhone users can proceed with a class-action lawsuit against Apple over its control of app sales in a ruling that could destroy the company’s exclusive marketplace of third-party software.
Members of the public had sued Apple, claiming that the company’s monopoly over its App Store led to inflated app prices.
According to The Hill, Apple disputed the legality of the suit, arguing the consumers had no standing to sue the company because it merely operated the App Store as an intermediary between users and the developers who make and sell apps.
Apple argued they’re above the law but Kavanaugh gave them a kick to the teeth:
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the opinion for the 5-4 decision, surprising many by breaking with his conservative colleagues and siding with the court’s liberal justices.
The Supreme Court had ruled in 1977 in a case called Illinois Brick that only “direct purchasers” of products have standing to bring antitrust lawsuits. In his decision, Kavanaugh rejected Apple’s argument that it was the app developers, and not the company operating the App Store, that sold the programs directly to users.
“Apple’s theory would provide a roadmap for monopolistic retailers to structure transactions with manufacturers or suppliers so as to evade antitrust claims by consumers and thereby thwart effective antitrust enforcement,” Kavanaugh wrote.
Hahahaha! Glad Kavanaugh is seeing past the left/right paradigm here. Truth be told its both parties who are in bed with Big Tech and they planned to con the game once again by using a minority vote for the good….. Kavanaugh surprised them and kicked both parties right in the teeth saying "nuh uh! I ain't playing your silly con-game, go after 'em!"
Ian Jenkins
Now this is news.
Andrew Diaz
Apple put out a few good OS(s) 10 to 15 years ago. The only OS(s) I'd use would be Mac OS X 10.5, 10.6 or 10.7 and that would only be for the kick ass media ripping/editing/conversion software that could be installed on it. Today there is almost no point because Linux and Windows XP really has everything you need, anything you could do on an old mac you can do with Linux and/or Windows XP. Nothing Apple has released as of recent is any good. Once they turned their operating systems into botnets and removed DVD writers from their computers, won't use their shit.
Leo Baker
Not much of a computer user huh.
OS X is BSD Unix based, like FreeBSD or OpenSTEP, and anything Linux can do OS X can do too.
The best Mac OS was 7.6.2 if you wanna get technical. Although 9 came pretty close to usable a couple months before it was obsoleted. Anything after 10 varies only in cpu compatibility, PowerPC vs Intel, stuff like that. The only differences visible to the user were in what versions of java and shockwave were made available.
Also the dvd writers on macs have always been shit. They’re famous for breaking after six months and costing $300 to replace, much to PC users’ amusement. After your SuperDrive blows you just get a $40 usb burner from Newegg and forget about it.
I’m hoping to see Apple beat down for their anti-right-to-repair practices more than anything. It’s Apple users’ fault for accepting their marketing decisions and gulping that koolaid down faster than they can mix it. The computer side really went to hell after Jobs decided the iPhone was his divine calling and decided to fuck the customer base that turned him from a college nerd to a multibillionaire.
It’s not too late for them to get back on track. Now that windows and OS X run basically the same binaries on the same hardware it’s a lot easier to put it together. They just need to forget their app model and Swift/objective c bullshit and use C++, likewise for Microsoft and that ridiculous C# nonsense. Unix developers have been staying the course all this time and it’s obviously just as profitable and capable, except for the companies that exist only to sell credentials.
Nathaniel Gutierrez
I had one a while back ago and did the exact thing you mentioned, bought a usb DVD writer for it. It worked for a long time till one day the computer malfunctioned and I decided I'd just switch to Linux instead of paying the money to have it fixed (partly not for just fiscal reasons but I didn't want them to see all the pirated software and media I had which is technically illegal). So I use linux and still have a Windows XP to work with offline and that suites me just fine.
Gabriel Reyes
The fact that you would even say this shows how you don't know jack shit about GNU or BSD, let alone how much of a proprietary and pigeonholed piece of shit OSX is. Most programs made for what you're calling "Linux" won't even run on OSX because the architecture is so different, and the OS locks the user out of the majority of what gives you actual freedom over the system. You're probably one of those retarded lemmings who thinks that OSX is good and useful because it comes packaged with GarageBand, which is a $120 piece of software that isn't even fucking useful and still requires you to pay an additional three figures just to unlock all of its "features". Is that your stupid idea of 'cool media editing stuff' or whatever? Comparing Apple shit to libre software is incredibly intellectually dishonest at best, and ostensibly an attempt to mislead everyone who reads your bullshit.
Daniel Baker
You can get them fixed under AppleCare of course, if you want to go to the mall, wait in line, take your computer back home, come back a week later when the part comes in, wait in line, drop it off, come back again after it’s fixed, wait in line, and then go home hoping it’s actually fixed. I just prefer the cheap usb replacement route.
Grayson Sullivan
Funny. I’ve compiled tons of Linux builds on my four PowerBooks, three iMacs, mini, and air, and also my turbo plus, not to mention the FreeBSD machines I ran starting at v1.7 in the mid 90s, and I’m not sure I’ve experienced what you’re talking about. The most problems I’ve had with Unix have ironically been on Debian Linux. And I have a little sysV experience too, having run a 3B2/300 in my house for a few years before I got the bsd machine.
But then I usually build from source and don’t try to install premade packages.
Xavier Parker
All I said was you can pretty much do anything you could on an older Mac that you could do with Linux. Of-course the software is different, duh. But you still can find anything you need with open source software for Linux. And no, I haven't used BSD because I'm not a tech geek like most people are over here. I'm just an old disgruntled jackass who likes to use Operating Systems that actually work. Which is why I use older Operating Systems, not newer ones.
