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United States v. Apple is pure nerd rage

The DOJ’s surprisingly readable 88-page complaint makes me feel seen.

United States v. Apple is a lawsuit written for the general public, an 88-page press release designed to be read aloud on cable news shows. That’s not against the rules — note that United States v. Google( filed 2023) has a single, terse intro paragraph outside the numbered section — but US v. Apple powers up for two whole pages before getting into allegations. It’s fun to engage with the legal distillation of nerd rage at the line level, but there’s also an overarching narrative here that the DOJ is trying to push, one with potentially enormous ramifications.

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