{"id":158,"date":"2024-03-25T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T13:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2024-03-28T13:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T13:14:52","slug":"doj-antitrust-lawsuit-complains-that-iphones-are-cool-says-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/25\/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-complains-that-iphones-are-cool-says-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ antitrust lawsuit complains that iPhones are cool, says lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One element of the DOJ antitrust lawsuit<\/a> against Apple<\/a> addresses iMessage<\/a>, and Apple\u2019s decision to keep the app exclusive to iPhone. But it goes further than arguing that this is anti-competitive, and attacks the use of green chat bubbles for Android users as creating \u201csocial stigma.\u201d<\/p>\n

A lawyer commenting on this claim says that it effectively amounts to the Department of Justice complaining that people think the iPhone is cooler than Android phones \u2026 <\/p>\n

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One element of the DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Apple addresses iMessage, and Apple\u2019s decision to keep the app exclusive to iPhone. But it goes further than arguing that this is anti-competitive, and attacks the use of green chat bubbles for Android users as creating \u201csocial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tipsright.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}