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Five takeaways from the huge US antitrust lawsuit against Apple

The iPhone is at the heart of the DOJ’s antitrust case.

The US Department of Justice is suing Apple for “monopolizing smartphone markets” to help guarantee the iPhone’s continued success — to the detriment of consumers and third-party developers. In the meantime, Apple will make major changes to the App Store framework in the EU and reduce messaging friction by supporting RCS. But to the DOJ, the damage has already been done — and those steps don’t absolve Apple of unfairly suppressing competition, being a thorn in the side of developers, and (supposedly) wielding its monopoly power to “extract more money” from anyone and everyone using an iPhone.

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