The Apple Antitrust Case: The Real Monopolist Is the Government

Who is that calling the iPhone too expensive?

AP/Matthias Schrader, file
An Apple store at Munich, December 16, 2020. AP/Matthias Schrader, file

At the core of the antitrust lawsuit the Biden administration and 16 states have launched against Apple lurks the complaint that Apple has unfairly kept the iPhone too expensive.

“Rather than respond to competitive threats by offering lower smartphone prices to consumers,” the lawsuit says, the company “locked in users.”

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