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.

  • 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.