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Hello making to finish shots daily. In today's

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episode we tell you about the latest lawsuit

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against Apple and the U S. Storytelling

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is quite a useful skill. You.

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Can revert dealer and anything and persuade

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people to believe you. You can get

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the leader or listener to side with

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you and that's what the Us Department

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of Justice has attempted. Know when it's

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slap The lawsuit against Apple. A couple

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of days ago, the eighty eight page

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document wasn't burdened with legal ease or

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jogging. Rado the deal G or the

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Department of Justice decided to tell his

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story a story of Apple's dominance which

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begins like this: Caught. In.

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Twenty Ten or Top Apple Executive emailed

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Apple's then Ceo of what an Ad

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for the new Kindle Eat Edo. The

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ad began with the woman who was

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using I Phone to buy and read

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books and the Kindle app. She then

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switches to an Android smartphone and continues

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read her book using the same kinda

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lap. The Executive wrote Jobs. One message

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that can be missed is that it

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is easy to switch from I phone

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to Android. not fun to watch. Jobs

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was clear in his response. Apple would

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force Devil. Opposed to use it's payment

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system to lock in both developers and

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users on it's platform or many years

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Apple has repeatedly responded to competitive threats

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like this: my making it harder are

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more expensive what it's users and developers

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to leave then by making it more

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attractive for them to stay on court.

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And. That's enough to grab your attention and

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think oh, is Apple's ecosystem shady and

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illegal? Is the just apply to stop

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users from switching to Android if they're

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tired of Apple. So after planting got seed

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of doubt the deal g doubled down

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on it and we're going to tell

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you what t r of the find

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most interesting allegations. Number. One.

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Apple. Degrades cross platform messaging

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apps. It. Ready ready to them

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go. Made an offhand remark at a tech

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conference and he's probably regretting it now because

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the Department of Justice has used it to

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prove a point. We will tell you what

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that was it a minute, but for some

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background. so Apple has its. One messaging app

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called I'm At It is Twenty Eleven People

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use it to send text, images, videos and

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locations and you can think it through at

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Apple laptop and I pad to and like

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a regular as the Mets which tablet or

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what the mobile network providers infrastructure. This messaging

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service would rely on the internet as a

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thing. As Apple decided that it would not

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create an Eye Messages app for Android users

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of Windows users it would be for Apple's

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use those Sure You could argue that that

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other tools like what's have these days so

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shouldn't matter. but as popular tech you tube

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or. Mk be hit. d pointed out

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most people simply use the default apps

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whether it's for browsing office sending messages.

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So when an I phone use on

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the Us picks up the phone message

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someone, they're probably going to click on

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I message to do this and you're

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the problem. When the I phone user

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messages another I phone user through I

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message. they get all the features such

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as read receipts and the messages show

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up in blue bubbles. What? Heaven forbid

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the messes an Android user because then

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the I'm as as reverts to regular

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estimates that's not cent or the Internet

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on it loses all the features, the

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reactions, the more these and everything. It

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also means an Android user can't do

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any be part of a group chat

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with other I phone users edo. What's.

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Worse, Apple discriminates against Android users

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ensures the message in a green

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bubble. Yes, That's the infamous

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blue of it was his brain to the

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debate. and with nearly nine or ten teenagers

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to the Us getting an I phone you

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would be left out of the social communication

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Socal if you were an Android use of

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you'd be ostracized and Nord been wants to

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be the odd one out, right? So it's

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no wonder the Department of Justice said in

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his lawsuit that Apple set obstacles to I

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phone families giving the kids Android phones. Or.

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What it in cook say at a conference. Ah,

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One person, the audience asked cook if Apple

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would fix the I phone to Android messaging.

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They said it's tough not to make it

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personal, but I can send my mom certain

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videos. On. Cooks response was by

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a mom and I phone. That.

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Exchange makes his way into the lawsuit

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to. Number. Two. Apple.

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Ban cloud streaming game apps if you're a

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mobile game or if you're a mobile game

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or you know that you need to howard

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top end devices massive computational by to get

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the game to run smoothly or else you'll

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be left to the poor quality expedience. And.

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Get that sort of bar? You need a

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high performing smartphone to go with it. Something

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like the I phone of course. What? Over

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the years the idea of gaming has scenes.

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gaming moved on to the cloud with Microsoft

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X box cloud gaming and and videos G

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Force Suddenly you didn't need a top of

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the line for the game anymore. All the

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processing would take place in a data center

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somewhere and you could game easily with the

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law and piece of hardware with the fast

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internet connection. That was a problem

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for Apple because as a Department of Justice

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said in his lawsuit, Apple fjord a world

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where all that matters is who has the

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cheapest hardware and consumers could buy an Android?

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put twenty five bucks at a garage sale

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and have sorted cloud computing device that works

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fine. Apple was afraid that cloud gaming would

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mean that people didn't need high end devices

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for gaming and people wouldn't find a reason

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to upgrade the afford to one with new

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high speed processes as well. So. The

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I phone fifteen I'd seeing next level

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performance in mobile gaming just wouldn't have

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the same effect. But. It wasn't

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just that, but it's also about revenues

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because a user could simply subscribe to

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the cloud gaming so was get access

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to multiple games. That means Apple would

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get less of a cut of the

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gaming revenue. It. Would get a cut

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of subscription revenue but lose out on

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a more lucrative a nap purchases for

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individual games. So. Apple did the

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unthinkable. It. Banned cloud based

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games. Now. That doesn't seem right, does

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it? Allegation. Number to the. Opposite

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Brzeski functions of third party smart watches. look

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around you and tell us when was the

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last time you saw someone were a regular.

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I Love watch. You know, the one with

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proper numbers inscribed on the face of it?

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I'm the to moving hands at least it's

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hard to remember Really everyone wants a smart

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watch and if you want an I phone

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and want a smart watch, you're gonna have

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to get an Apple Smart. Watch a

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know. It's not because you really wanted,

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but is because Apple is ensured that other

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smart watches don't work well with the I

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phone. The Great. Thirteen When

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Apple started offering users the ability to

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gonna get I phones with the body

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smart watches and they uploaded access to

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those developers that the Apple Notification Center,

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service, calendar, contacts and your location might

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and ready for. the Apple began his

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journey with the Apple Watch and dial

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back on all of this access. So.

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Third party smart watches as connected to

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the I phone contracts bonded notifications that

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except the calendar invite from the of

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Watch What? it's not just about watches

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to be honest your something from a

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podcast featuring Deck that idol Casey Newton

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who says. Court. If you're

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ever tried to use a non airport bluetooth

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headphones with an I phone it's not easy.

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I do this every day because the airport

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they don't stick in my years so I

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use the Sony your buds and it's really

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odyssey like a coin flip whether they go

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to connect the my I phone or not.

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I have three every time I wore listen

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to a podcast so I'm living through this

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every day and god. Yes, Apple

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does seem to come across as pretty petty

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and once you realize that the Apple watch

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is incompatible with Android, then you can see

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how Apple's using the ecosystem of hardware joker

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and people from making the switch from the

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I phone. Anyway, The only

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question that remains is will the Department of

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Justice win against the happens? When. We

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don't know because no matter what good story

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you we've you still need to convince the

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court that the fact that on your side.

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What? We can tell is that the Department

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of Justice has opted to trade or different

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part in a bid to win this lawsuit.

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See most. Recent lawsuits against

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opposites have hinged on highlighting for the

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tech giant uses his dominance in smartphones

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to squeezed app developers, Apple Dell developers.

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Listen, we're giving you insane Li White

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any media distribution. We are our store

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so you better pay us a thirty

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percent commission. Naturally, Developers

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hit that. But. When Epic Games

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is created a popular game fortnight to call

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the might have happened and complained about Apple's

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app store monopoly they didn't score. Green.

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At. Idle the judge's decision fi what

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Apple in ten of the eleven counts.

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So as Ben Thompson, who writes Track

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Daiquiri theorize, maybe the Department of Justice

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realize that attacking the absorbed monopoly wasn't

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going to be enough, and instead of

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flogging a dead horse, it launched an

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attack on the ready thing that brought

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success to apps. It's integration across hardware

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and software from computers to phones to

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watches to I tunes. Apple has build

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it's foundational ecosystem over decades, and the

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Department of Justice wants everyone to believe

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that such. An Integrated Experiences

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Illegal. For. Now we would have to

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wait and see how the start of the pans

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