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re: Marques Brownlee explains the Apple Antitrust lawsuit
Posted on 4/8/24 at 8:46 am to TigerGman
Posted on 4/8/24 at 8:46 am to TigerGman
As a non-lawyer and all around moron that doesn't understand any of this, can you explain to me what a social stigma against demographics means and how it effects Apple?
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Posted on 4/8/24 at 10:20 am to SaintEB
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As a non-lawyer and all around moron that doesn't understand any of this, can you explain to me what a social stigma against demographics means and how it effects Apple?
1. Obtaining a monopoly by superior products, innovation, or business acumen is legal; however, the same result achieved by exclusionary or predatory acts may raise antitrust concerns.
2. Exclusionary conduct can include switching costs (high costs that users of a product would face in switching to a substitute)
3. Switching costs can be monetary, psychological, effort-based, and time-based.
4. Social stigma can be a psycological switching cost for apple users moving to a competitor.
5. The social stigma does not come from apple creating a better messaging experience solely on merit. It comes from excluding iphone users from messaging non-iphone users in a secure and modern fashion.
Posted on 4/8/24 at 11:52 am to SaintEB
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As a non-lawyer and all around moron that doesn't understand any of this, can you explain to me what a social stigma against demographics means and how it effects Apple?
Look, it's high-level stuff, especially for a layman. Even "actual lawyers" obviously struggle with it.
The key to remember is it's the Biden DOJ, not me, that says in its lawsuit it's relying on social stigma against, say, blacks, for example, to sue Apple.
You have to understand that just because the DOJ, much less the Biden administration, says it is so doesn't mean they are right or will win the suit on that basis. The DOJ files suits and also files them on invalid grounds and loses.
It's a pure bullshite argument; the anti-trust laws were never enacted to enforce social engineering. Hopefully, the lower courts, and if not, the Supreme Court will eventually make short shrift of it.
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