American Tech Giant Comes Under Fire From DOJ, Stock Tumbles

This has to be the dumbest, most contrived B.S. I have ever seen in my life.

The Department of Justice is currently trying to break up an American tech giant, and a fine one at that.

According to new filings from the DOJ, Apple Corp, the manufacturer of the iPhone, MacBook, and a whole host of other wonderful products, represents a monopoly that must be broken up.

Biden’s cronies claim that the iPhone represents some sort of monopoly—nothing can be further from the truth.

There are scores of other smartphone manufacturers and entire alternate operating systems that one can opt to use—like Android.

I am a perfect example of this. I am writing this article using a MacBook Pro right now—I LOVE my MacBook and will never go back to PC.

I also use a Google Pixel 8 as my smartphone and have been buying the flagship Google phones, unlocked, directly from the manufacturer, since the Google Nexus 5 in 2015.

Like the MacBook, I LOVE the way this phone functions and will likely never switch to an iPhone. Google phones retail for nearly half, if not a third of the price, of Apple phones.

My phone works seamlessly with my laptop, so what monopoly are they talking about here? Apple has its market and Android also has its market.

The very reason Apple products work so well is that the same company that is designing the software also designs the hardware—this does not represent a consumer monopoly.

They retail their products at much higher prices than their competition, and the very fact that there is ample competition is enough to prove that Apple does not represent a monopoly.

You know what does represent a monopoly? The United States government and the parasitic individuals that make up that vampire draining society of its blood.

Apple makes life-changing products. The state, most notably the U.S. government, has been shown to be hazardous to life and health. It is not Apple that must be broken up, it is the U.S. government that must be broken up.

Rand Paul exclaimed: “Make no mistake about it, today’s attack by DOJ is about Apple refusing to open a back door, not the App Store.”

Make no mistake about it, today’s attack by DOJ is about Apple refusing to open a back door, not the App Store. https://t.co/fDFmtp60F5

— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) March 21, 2024

Louis KC, an alleged parody account, writes: “Government suing Apple for a “monopoly” is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen when it comes to this anti-trust crap.

The normal way this works is that a company goes out and puts other companies out of business by lowering their prices or they just buy the other companies. Then that company is the only one you can buy anything from.

But with Apple, they fucking created all their own products from scratch to work with their own products. So sue them because they did great at it? Yes, that’s what’s happening.

I have zero stock in Apple and don’t know how shit works but I know how to play the game monopoly…this is not it.”

Government suing Apple for a “monopoly” is the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen when it comes to this anti-trust crap.

The normal way this works is that a company goes out and puts other companies out of business by lowering their prices or they just buy the other companies. Then…

— Louis KC (@notlouisck) March 22, 2024

CNBC reports:

The lawsuit claims Apple’s anti-competitive practices extend beyond the iPhone and Apple Watch businesses, citing Apple’s advertising, browser, FaceTime and news offerings.

“Each step in Apple’s course of conduct built and reinforced the moat around its smartphone monopoly,” according to the suit, filed by the DOJ and 16 attorneys general in New Jersey federal court.

Attorney General Merrick Garland stated: “As set out in our complaint, Apple has maintained its power, not because of its superiority, but because of its unlawful, exclusionary behavior.”

The DOJ is suing Apple in an antitrust lawsuit, alleging the company has a "monopoly" over the smartphone market.

"As set out in our complaint, Apple has maintained its power, not because of its superiority, but because of its unlawful, exclusionary behavior," AG Garland says. pic.twitter.com/mSSvBVMwdQ

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 21, 2024

The Apple lawsuit is merely the latest example of gross overreach by Biden's antitrust zealots in the Justice Department. Apple doesn't have any monopoly on smartphones, nor is it any threat to establish one. Not even in this country, much less globally.

— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) March 21, 2024

Bloomberg writer Dave Lee concluded:

I’m not trying to be droll. The iPhone’s quality, and the way in which Apple continues to make it so, goes to the heart of the case filed against the company on Thursday morning.

And it makes any potential remedy a touchy subject. Leveling the playing field invariably means adding complication, friction and insecurity to a device that became successful because Apple was able to engineer away all of those things.