• US Supreme Court rules against Apple, App Store monopoly suit can continue
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/supreme-court-rules-against-apple-in-app-store-antitrust-case.html The Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-4 against Apple, saying iPhone users can pursue their antitrust lawsuit involving the tech giant’s signature electronic marketplace, the App Store. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, which was joined by the court’s liberal justices. The iPhone users argued that Apple’s 30% commission on sales through the App Store is an unfair use of monopoly power that results in inflated prices passed on to consumers.
At least one good thing comes out of Kav.
Honestly, I see it more as building good faith for when the big, nasty legislation crosses to the Court so he can alley-oop that bitch with the rest of the conservative cronies in the court.
If they're actively preventing any other storefront from even existing for Apple devices, then that's by definition a monopoly and they can go get fucked. Even Google allows third-party stores to exist. They might not do well, but they still exist.
Google is also very hands-off with the front they do endorse.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, which was joined by the court’s liberal justices. I'd buy him a beer for this tbh
If this results in 3rd party store availability becoming mandatory, I'll switch from Android.
Android also allows .apks to be sideloaded from arbitrary sources, which has saved my ass on multiple occasions.
I heard he likes beer. Good choice.
For what it's worth, becoming a supreme justice tends to make people become more liberal with time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Graph_of_Martin-Quinn_Scores_of_Supreme_Court_Justices_1937-Now.png/800px-Graph_of_Martin-Quinn_Scores_of_Supreme_Court_Justices_1937-Now.png
Lots of people like beer. Whats the problem with liking beer? Do you like beer? DO YOU LIKE BEER? WHAT DO YOU LIKE TO DRINK?
I've been anticipating for like a decade that MS/Sony would get their asses sued by GameStop and co when they finally release a digital-only console, but I guess this case will answer that question
I wouldn't, he's going to be the swing vote on the census question, gerrymandering, and religious rights to discriminate
I don't think that suit would hold any ground if it did happen.
Jeez what happened to Douglas
He was probably the most productive justice America ever had and one of the most important, and fought for individual rights and against monopolies. He was also a strong environmentalist, and was valuable in the protection of the American wilderness. At the same time, he took some more extreme positions later on, including arguing that planning to overthrow the government publicly counted as free speech and that landmarks facing destruction should have legal cases due to the attachment that people have for them de facto personifying them. He also strongly was against the Vietnam War and consistently tried to get it stopped, but was overruled by the other justices and the war continued. He had to go through nearly the entire war, having been a friend of the assassinated prime minister from before the Vietnam War started, and watch as all of the other justices constantly defied him to allow Vietnam to be bombed and invaded by American troops, even though he himself thought that American action was illegal when they were even fighting on the side of his murdered acquaintance. As the case involving overthrowing was held against a communist and the Vietnam War itself was deemed anti-communist in nature, he as such was considered heavily left-leaning. It was mostly the Vietnam War that likely swung that particular line.
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