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.

  • Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    84·
    2 years ago

    They’re certainly a much worse value for the money and intentionally constrained in ways that maximize the profits of Apple services by making it inconvenient or impossible to use alternatives, but the UI is substantially better than Android. Aside from that and Apple device interoperability benefits, nearly any Android phone is a better choice for most people.

    • thimantha@lemmy.worldEnglish
      163·
      2 years ago

      Hard disagree. iOS UI/UX is sub par compared to Android. Consistent visuals and fancier animations don’t mean that the UI is good.

    • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      2 years ago

      Agree to disagree I guess! I used an iPhone X as my daily driver for 3 years and was overjoyed to get the Android UI back when I switched back. The iPhone visuals are more consistent but the UX is significantly worse imo. There are a few things that I reckon are mainly just Apple being stubborn and refusing to admit they were wrong - e.g. the lack of a back button

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      53·
      2 years ago

      but the UI is substantially better than Android.

      Yeah, hard disagree

      For one, you can make Android look/behave like anything you want.

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      The UI is terrible. Unintuitive and can’t be customized. What’s good about it?