The lawsuit seeks to upend a major part of Apple’s business.

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.

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
    282·
    2 years ago

    Now we just need the US to force carriers to automatically unlock phones after they are paid off.

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      281·
      2 years ago

      They do actually. What you’re talking about is unlocking the bootloader.

      I wanted to borrow a friend’s [old] phone to try out graphene but he got it from Verizon and they keep the bootloaders locked so it was worthless.

      • MyNamesNotRobert@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        As soon as smartphones started becoming commonplace in like 2009 or so, I dropped Verizon because I wasn’t going to pay $500 for a smartphone that couldn’t have custom roms. Verizon can go fuck themselves.

      • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        A lot of carriers make you wait a certain period of time before unlocking. I’m hoping that I can get my phone unlocked so I can install graphene OS. I got a good deal on it so that’s why I bought it locked, I’m going to degoogle it as much as possible until I can get the bootloader unlocked.

          • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I am well aware but you can’t unlock the boot loader without having a phone carrier unlocked.

            • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              It’s been a while since I did it, but every single time I’ve unlocked a bootloader it’s been on a carrier-locked device. I’d usualy do it to remove carrier bloat.

              • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
                1·
                2 years ago

                Carrier Unlocking is required before a phone can be bootloader unlocked, at least on my Pixel 8.